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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:17:15 -0400
From: Francois <>
Subject: Selling cryonics?

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To Patrice Levin.


I did not write the maxim, nor do I know who did, unfortunately. It's one of 
many interesting proverbs I have collected during my wanderings on the Internet.
It does sum up perfectly my opinion on health and longevity though, and it 
seemed completely relevant to Cryonet.


Concerning the marketing of cryonics, I did expect that it had been tried and 
had failed for some reason. Perhaps there is some confusion in the public as to 
what exactly cryonics offers? Cryonics is a technique that allows the indefinite
preservation of a body, enabling it to wait until the technology to revive it 
and restore it to health is developped. It promises nothing more and it delivers
on that promise quite well. Of course, the preservation technique can always be
improved, and it is indeed steadily being improved. But cryonics cannot, and 
does not promise that the revival technology will ever become available. This is
something that should be emphasized at every possible opportunity. It is 
something that every person who is really interested in cryonics knows and 
understands, but it is something the general public, the media and various 
levels of government are apparently very confused about. It's probably why so 
many people believe cryonics to be a money making scam. Correcting this 
misconception would go a long way toward making cryonics a more legitimate 
endeavor in the eyes of the media and the public. I know it's a hard thing to 
do, but I have seen many reports in this digest about such efforts, some of 
which have been quite successful.


Also, if I may make another suggestion, perhaps more frivolous, or perhaps not. 
I have of course seen pictures of Alcor's and CI's facilities. To my eye, they 
look perfectly adequate. To the general public however, they are completely drab
and uninspiring. They would gain a lot by being "dressed up" made to look like 
something seen in science fiction movies, with colored lights and flashy 
computer displays. Of course, one should not go overboard with this or it would 
make cryonics appear to be mere flim flam. But well applied, such dressing up 
could make cryonics appear more friendly to the average person, by making it 
conform more closely to the images of such facilities they have seen in science 
fiction movies and TV programs

Francois
Good health is merely the slowest
possible rate at which one can die.

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