X-Message-Number: 27471
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 06:38:54 -0800 (PST)
From: rr ss <>
Subject: AP news article mentions cryonics



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601080255jan08,1,2707614.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
The Big Goodbye
For many Americans, it's not just a funeral and burial

"People used to know exactly where they would be
buried: in a family plot in their hometown," Hanlon
said. "But the characteristic that we are seeing in
the generation of people dying today is that their
mobility has sent them from San Francisco to New York,
Texas to Wisconsin. When they begin to think of and
prepare for their own deaths, they are thinking about
things quite differently than people did even back in
the 1960s or '70s."

Options vastly changing
...

Indeed, in 2006, the year that the oldest members of
America's Baby Boom generation turn 60, the
after-death options being chosen by those who have
lost a loved one or are planning for their own deaths
have vastly changed.

People are creating documentaries about their lives to
be shown at their services and bringing in the
marching band of their alma mater to play the funeral
music. Others are having their remains rocketed into
space or turned into artificial reefs to be placed in
the ocean. Cryonics--the oft-derided practice of
freezing people after death in the hope of reawakening
them with yet-to-be-invented technology--has gone from
the stuff of science fiction to a moneymaking
industry. Even interment places are changing, with
such institutions as the University of Notre Dame
considering building a cemetery where former students
could be buried near campus.
....




		
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