X-Message-Number: 23462
From: Tim Freeman <>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:28:08 -0700
Subject: done your best to survive
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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
>I don't feel that cryonics offers any real palliative to the fear of death.
>It does enable you to perish with the knowledge that you have done your best
>to survive.

Many cryonicists aren't doing their best to survive.  For example,
cryonics plus a reasonable exercise regimen gives you better odds than
just doing cryonics, since it decreases your chance of sudden cardiac death.
Many of us don't have a reasonable exercise regimen.

I believe the requirements for doing cryonics are:

1. Enough rationality in confronting death to think clearly about cryonics.
2. Enough persistence to do the paperwork.
3. Enough discipline with money to pay for it.
4. Lack of concern for what other people might think.

Many people who exercise are motivated by vanity.  Vanity is the
opposite of requirement #4 above.  This might explain why fewer of us
exercise than you might expect if you assume that cryonics simply
needs a desire to stay alive.

-- 
Tim Freeman                                                  
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