X-Message-Number: 23080 From: Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:06:22 EST Subject: Re: Millionaires etc In a message dated 12/11/2003 5:01:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, Charles Platt <> writes: > Instead of asking why millionaires don't put money into > cryonics, a more sensible question might be, why any > millionaire ever _would_ put money into cryonics. This could > be a very interesting line of inquiry. I asked Don Laughlin > (in a taped interview) why he had signed up, and he just > said, "I like the odds." Why did this extremely shrewd man > tell me that resuscitation seems "pretty much a done deal" to > him, while other wealthy individuals would not share this > opinion? I don't know the answer to this question, but I > would like to. Well, he's a casino owner, and from what I've gathered reading articles and posts by Ben Best and others, he sounds like a risk-taker. Maybe he's simply a gambling man who trusts his own instincts. Laughlin also seems very uncomfortable when talking about death in interviews I've read, so he doesn't strike me as the typical, ultra-rationalist cryonics activist. He may just be following his "gut". Or I could be way off-base. :) -Jonathan Hinek Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23080