X-Message-Number: 31201 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:22:34 -0800 (PST) From: david pizer <> Subject: Need Help Hi Cryofriends I am trying to craft a message to the general public to promote cryonics in general. Here is a very rough, first draft. I am stuck for ideas to try to find words that might get the general public into thinking about why cryonics is the moral thing to do - and why it might be wrong NOT to do it. Any suggestions, please email me at Thanks, David JOIN THE VENTURISTS The Society for Venturism is an organization of like-minded people who generally believe that it may be possible to conquer death thorough technological means some day and that it is worth trying to do. Some people believe that life is a gift from God or a higher power, others believe that life is an accident, a chance happening that no mind planned. Either way a person believes that life happened, there is a moral imperative to preserve that life. So Venturists who are trying to preserve and extend their lives through heroic means are the humans who hold the moral high ground -- no matter how life got started. If life is a chance happening the odds of the material that makes up your body and brain coming together, evolving as it did, must be billions to one. There has to be all the right conditions for life to have sparked into existence from mindless matter to what is a human brain in a human body that transports and protects that brain. If life is a gift from God, what a wonderful gift it is. If this is how our lives were created then if we value that life and the Being who gave it to us, then we must be obligated to show our appreciation. Action speaks louder then words - so philosophers and traditional religious leaders can speak lofty phrases saying how much they appreciate the gift and Giver, but then they just let the gift of life turn to dust, are not showing their appreciation near as much as a cryoncists who takes action to protect that gift. Those who protect the gift of life by trying to preserve it, by this act alone, are showing the Giver just how much they appreciate the gift. Either way you think that you came into existence, the proper thing to do is to try to stay alive and preserve and honor your existence. The only way to do that at present is to make arrangements to have your body frozen, or preserved as best possible, at legal death while most of the cells in your body are still alive, and wait for science to create ways to reverse aging and disease, and when they do have them unfreeze your body and reanimate you back into perfect health. Then continue to live on, while taking steps to further preserve and extend your life, virtually forever if it becomes possible. If you believe that life is worth enough that it is worth taking steps to try to preserve, extend and improve on it, then join with us in your venture to the future. Join the Venturists Write us at: The Society for Venturism 11255 State Route 69 Mayer Arizona 86333 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31201