X-Message-Number: 2548 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: CRYONICS Re: High Temp Cryonics wrap-up Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 20:18:21 -0800 (PST) To Ben Best: I did not say that the reasons for survival of cities and survival of businesses were the same, but only cited SOME businesses and SOME cities for survival for a very long time. As for survival of businesses, they become more likely to survive the longer they survive. Most new businesses fail comparatively early. Frankly it does not seem to me that a "head-on collision with the medical establishment" is inevitable at all. There are lots of alternative medicines around right now. They seem to be surviving quite well, even if their basic tenets (consider homeopathy! which is actually much better established in Europe, from what I could see when I visited Holland) conflict wildly not only with medicine but with science generally. It is, of course, important that we don't go about deliberately alienating people. So far that has worked: the chief problem of cryonics is public indifference, not public hostility. Of course, just like someone who spends his time skulking around in corners, if we generally act guiltily we'll probably find ourselves taken to the police station for interrogation if not worse. Cryonics is not and should not be anything to be ashamed of. Best and long long life, Thomas Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2548