X-Message-Number: 31240
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:57:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Conrad <>
Subject: Forrest J. Ackerman contemplated a "cryogenic comeback."

I haven't heard if he followed through on his interest
in cryonics, however.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1864854,00.html

Sci-Fi's No. 1 Fanboy, Forrest J Ackerman, Dies at 92

. . .
This futurist lived long enough to serenely
contemplate his own future, or lack of it. "It would
be nice to look forward to going to a Great Sci-Fi
Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am
vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback
but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I,
like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't
expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an
afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was
15, long before the term was invented, and nothing
since has changed my mind."
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Regards,

Julian

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