X-Message-Number: 31474 From: Mark Plus <> Subject: Re: how many people have never heard of cryonics Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:02:53 -0700 In Cryonet #31467, John de Rivaz writes: >. . . if certain people are given lots of money for publicity they could somehow get lots of sign ups seem to miss one thing. >How many people are there that have never heard of cryonics? >Once someone has heard of it, they can very easily find out more without ever disclosing their interest to anyone. The fact that few people have signed seems to me to be very unlikely to be due to unawareness. The internet has made it vastly easier for people to find information about almost anything. Contrast the efficiency today of conducting a search for cryonics information, even in Spanish, with the ordeal a wealthy family in Spain underwent a mere 20 years ago to find a cryonics organization in the U.S. when a daughter died suddenly. They knew, vaguely, that cryonics existed in the U.S. (along with how many other Spaniards in the late 1980's?), but they lacked an efficient way to make contact with a cryonics society. When they finally stumbled across Alcor, fortunately Alcor's president at the time could communicate in fluent Spanish: Worst Case Scenario http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/casereport8911.html So, apparently, the lack of interest in cryonics derives from sources other than ignorance of its existence or the inability for the internet-connected to find out about it. "Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . . Life expectancy will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death will be rare and accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981). http://www.box.net/shared/static/ay9lub60ha.pdf http://www.scribd.com/doc/10948503/Up-Wing-Priorities Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ HotmailR is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31474