X-Message-Number: 22891 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:58:01 -0500 From: "Raphael T. Haftka" <> Subject: You don't know that you will want to live forever. References: <> >I don't know that I want to live forever, and you don't either. One of the cars in our department parking lot has the following bumper sticker: Militant agnostic: I don't know whether there is a God, and you don't know either! I feel the same about living forever. I cannot fathom how you know that you will want to live forever. The most that you can tell is that you don't like the idea of not having the choice in the near and intermediate future. I am pretty sure that I would not want to die in the next hundred years. I cannot tell if I won't get tired of living after, say, one billion years, or whether I will have some other good reason to prefer to cease to exist by then. So when I talk about cryonics, I simply state what I am sure about, which is that I would like to live at least another hundred years. Rafi Haftka .. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22891