X-Message-Number: 31758 From: Kennita (Go Cryo!) <> Subject: Re: Why hasn't cryonics become a status symbol? Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:45:23 -0700 References: <> Once it's featured on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous", maybe it will. It might help if even a handful (or a double handful?) of such people were wearing their bracelets around and telling people about it in interviews and at parties and such Then again, maybe not. Live long and prosper, Kennita Mark Plus <> wrote: > > ...The misconception persists that only very rich people can afford > cryonics...[and] that they have signed up for it in considerable > numbers. Nicholas von Hoffman promotes this belief in an essay he > published in The Nation magazine a few years ago: > > Freezing Their Assets > > http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060227/vonhoffman > > Normally, the kinds of things that only very rich people can afford > tend to become status symbols, like mansions, yachts, private jets, > or in an extreme case, a trip to the International Space Station > care of the Russians. > > If so many ordinary people believe that very rich people have > flocked to cryonics, why hasn't cryonics become a status symbol like > the other goods, services and experiences very rich people tend to > buy and that many non-rich people wish they could have as well? > Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31758