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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: religion declining 
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:52:09 -0000

It makes sense to me that secularised societies are more anti-cryonics than 
religious ones. Most religions teach their adherents to respect life, both 
their own and that of others. For example, I doubt that a devout person in a 
hospital legal department would forbid a surgeon to cooperate with a 
cryonics patient, for example -- he would put the value of the patient's 
life higher than the value on his own time to work out a way it could be 
done.

Secularised societies put accountancy at the top of a list of priorities - 
ie select that which appears to be the most financially efficient. Often 
this is actually wrong from a financial point of view, but who cares as long 
as the accountants can charge fees. It is human nature to do the barest 
minimum amount of work for the maximum amount of income.

There is a sound logical reason for this. Most religions suggest post mortem 
survival of some sort, and those adherents that perform their religious 
duties well get a reward in that afterlife. Any religion that allowed its 
members to self destruct in order to get to that rewarding afterlife sooner 
and with less effort would rapidly lose all their members.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

----- Original Message ----- 
From: 2Arcturus <>
Subject: Re: religion declining
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And it should be noted, on this list, all the heavily secularized societies 
mentioned in the article are *much more* anti-cryonics than "religious" 
America.


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