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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:30:02 EDT
Subject: Thanks for review of "Long Life?" novel, Ben

In a message dated 9/8/2008 5:58:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
 writes:

Sometimes when I go on long trips I attempt to read
a book with a  cryonics theme in airports and on the plane.
For my most recent trip I  chose the novel LONG LIFE?
by Robert  Begam:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977986314/



Hello, Ben and Cryoneters...
 
Thanks for the review and notification of above novel, Ben Best.  I  have 
gone to Amazon and ordered it.
 
I will post my observations on the book here on Cryonet and also on Amazon  
once I have read Begam's book.
 
We need a large body of cryonics themed literature establishing this meme  in 
a positive light in popular culture.  "The First Immortal" by  James Halperin 
remains at the top of this short list.  I am sorry  that Begam's book, per 
your review, gave the misimpression that cryonics is  only for the wealthy.
 
I hope my own book, "The Affordable Immortal: The Emerging Science of  

Biostasis and You" will correct this widely held and potentially very  negative
public misperception.  I will have more to say on Cryonet on  a later post 
regarding this book, which I believe is a reasonably good piece of  memetic 
engineering.
 
We should not underestimate the possibility of populist demogogues  railing 
against the morality of cryonics, and this possibility is more  likely if the 
public views cryonics exclusively as the bailiwick of  the very wealthy. 
 
Let's make today a great day.
 
Rudi

Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP CLU  ChFC

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