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From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344)
Subject: CRYONICS: Re: cryonics greeting cards

Dan Hitt suggested in message #2416:

  "Design a greeting card (without text) making a subtle suggestion
  of the possibility of successful cryonics. ..."

FYI: I created some "Neural Tweaker" greeting cards, mostly for my
own amusement.  They tend to be more thought-provoking than subtle,
tasteful, or artistic, though, and they all have some text, so they
do not satisfy your request exactly.  The graphics mostly are from
old engravings with expired copyrights but the captions are my own
creation.

Examples:

  - My only problem with immortality is that it will take forever for me
      to prove that I have achieved it.
  - Just Say NO to Aging!  (The graphics show an old person in a wheelchair
      surrounded by the words "stroke", "osteoporosis", "cancer", etc.)
  - Long Life Day - January 12 (The graphics show the grim reaper
      departing alone from Dr. James Bedford's dewer, while muttering
      to himself 'I can't take him while he's suspended in there!
      At last, someone has thwarted me...')

Here are some for which I have prototypes but not real greeting cards:

  - I am afflicted with a disease that causes gradual, worsening
      disability followed by death.  You have it, too.  It's called
      aging.  (Comment: How's that for a cheerful greeting card?)
  - Once cryonics is proven successful, won't burial and cremation be
      considered murder?
  - (The picture shows a boy getting a medical checkup with his doctor.)
      Boy: I want to live at least a thousand years and travel to
      far-away stars!  Doctor: Why?  Caption: Some People Just Don't Get It

I'm not actively promoting these right now.  (The market for truly grim
greeting cards is incredibly small.)  If you are interested in pursuing
something like that, though, then please send me email.

                              Kevin Q. Brown
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