X-Message-Number: 28577
From: "Jordan Sparks" <>
Subject: The need to do something
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:50:38 -0700

I feel this way constantly.  I sometimes wish I could just sit back and
enjoy the ride, but I'm beginning to realize that that will never happen.  I
have to DO something; it's just part of my personality.  Everyone has their
own strengths that they can use to promote cryonics.  I'm attacking it from
a number of different angles.  In no particular order, they are:
1. Get licensed as a funeral director.  This might be very easy since I can
do distance learning.  The only real demand will be the one year internship
at 30 hours per week.
2. Get an MD.  I have the drive and the ability.  My problem is that the
medical school is a 1 hour commute each direction.  It would destroy my
family life.  I might have to go to a Caribbean medical school after my son
has grown up.  Whatever it takes, though, I'm fully committed to making it
happen.
3. Grooming my son to be an MD, and to lead cryonics into the next century.
This, I can do well.  We're going to spend lots and lots of time studying
chemistry, physics, physiology, etc.  If he has even just a little bit of
his mother's genetics, he will be smarter than me.  Some parents might feel
like they should give their children a choice on careers.  I don't.  He's
going to be a doctor, and that's that.  I don't think he'll rebel because
there is such a rational underlying motive for my demand that he go to
medical school.  Anyway, doesn't everyone want to be a doctor?

I've pretty much given up on trying to convince people in my area of the
need for cryonics.  I'm tired of being surrounded by stupid people.  So I'll
probably just move to Michigan or Arizona in 15 years.  Maybe Dave's project
will have succeeded by then.  I want to be surrounded by smart people when
my time comes.


Jordan Sparks

-----Original Message-----
From: 

For better or worse, I am a driven human being, like many of  us...and often
feel frustrated about various issues that readers of this  venue also are
passionate about.  
 
And I don't apologize for being frustrated at the pace of scientific and
technical progress to relieve human suffering.  I feel like we are still
living in the "dark ages" in many ways, and I want to make a large
contribution  to the new enlightenment.  Like many of you, I am not always
sure exactly  how to do this, however.

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