X-Message-Number: 23272 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:16:10 +0800 (CST) From: =?big5?q?kurt2100kimo?= <> Subject: A response to Charles Platt Hello to All, I read here some time ago a posting from Charles Platt about why he no longer has a personal interest in being cryonically suspended. In it, he mentioned that he did not want to come back into a world "transformed beyond recognition" (I believe these were his words) where no one was left that he new from "before". This is precisely the scenario that I look forward to and IS the reason why I am interested in cryonics. I have made a major move twice in my life. The first was from Spokane, Washington to Southern California, when I was 22. The second was from Phoenix to Tokyo when i was 28. Moving from LA to Phoenix, and from Tokyo to Kaoshiung (in Southern Taiwan) were "lateral moves" that did not involve a major change in my life. In both instanses, I re-invented my life and my self. Both times, I hated the first 8-10 months, then absolutely loved it there after. I expect coming out of cryonic suspension will be the same, except that I can never "go back home" again. You create a new persona and life for yourself and make new friends. The difference is that coming out of suspension into an "ageless" society, the problem of finitude (the itch you can't scratch) no longer exists. You CAN always "look outward" if whatever life you're stuck with pisses you off. There will always be an open door and something new to look forward to. If relatively few of us make it, our relationship wit the rest of society will be analogous to the "gaijin" in Japan. We will be kind of like a subculture in the new society. I have lived this life and have achieved happiness in it. I can do it again. The only "psychological" requirements that I need to be happy is that I come out fully competent and competitive (in ability and opportunity) with the best that that society has to offer. Everything else is the open horizon. Sincerely, Kurt C Yahoo! _ C B B R A A b H http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/mail_premium/stationery.html Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23272