X-Message-Number: 28489 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: david pizer <> Subject: why is cryonics hard to sell --0-1588808537-1159108845=:92729 Q: Why is cryonics hard to sell? A: Most people don't want it. In the earlier days when I was doing a lot of radio talk shows for cryonics I made a little survey. Here are rough numbers of what I came up with. Of all the people on earth: 30 % don't want to live any longer then they have to. They don't want to kill themselves, but they don't want to extend their lives either. Of the remaining who want to live forever, 60% of them already believe they will achieve this through the religion they belong to. Think about it, if you knew that God exists and that you were guaranteed a wonderful eternal life in Heaven, a really nice place, why would you want to submit your body to the brutal (at the macro and micro levels) process of cryonics? Of the 10% or people that are left, that are not in any groups above, most of them don't think cryonics will work. So you have this tiny % who want to live forever and think that Mankind may be able to develop a technology to save them and cryonics may be the first step. And thanks to wrongful publicity, most of the people in this tiny group think they can't afford cryonics. So the remainder group is very tiny. It's us. If those who put up the money to advertize cryonics can identify the small group who might want to try cryonics but think it is too expensive and havn't signed up yet, and if there is a way to market just to them without having to spend money reaching those who are not in this group, and if that way could be found, and if those who are in charge of cryonics at that time could then create a message that would appeal to this small group, then a cost-effective way to reach this group will have been found. The good news is that this small group is probably growing and will probably continue to slowly grow until Mankind does something to change their opinions either way. I think the danger for us cryonicists now is not only the slow growth rate, but also the fact that Alcor's storage facility (and maybe CI's?) is in an area that could be a target in upcoming wars and acts of terrorism. The one thing that cryonics can do is work on moving the storage facility to a safer place - rural but not remote. David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1588808537-1159108845=:92729 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28489