X-Message-Number: 26414
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Promises, promises
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:21:15 +0100

Religions do not promise eternal life to their members. They say that it
exists whether you like it or not, but you will get a better quality of
eternal life if you join their particular brand.

Can anyone name one religion that says people will be annihilated if they do
not join? If anything, they say that they "burn in hell" if they do not
join. However I expect that that particular sort of rhetoric is not
politically correct these days.

Cryonics service providers don't promise a *certainly* of immortality (or
even indefinite lifespan) to those that join. All they offer is a chance
that this might happen, and point out that the chance is much nearer zero
for any alternative procedure when current medical science gives up.
Articles exist putting numbers into this, as can be found on cryonics web
sites, but no one, however mathematically gifted, can be sure of the future
or indeed the true nature of consciousness or reality.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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