X-Message-Number: 32617
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: The Enduring Myth of One Quick Promotional Fix
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:39:47 +0100


I would like to endorse what Charles Platt has just written, although I would 
have been happier if the word "absurd" was left out - it doesn't encourage 
objective reading of the rest of the article. I would ask everyone angered by it
to re read the article and imagine the word isn't there.

At the end, it says
>>>
And promoting
cryonics is extremely difficult, mainly because, almost anyone can see
that cryonics doesn't work yet. You are not going to sell something
that doesn't work, but is quite expensive, to one-third of the
population (any population).

<<<


The first sentence is correct in that it includes "yet". But the second sentence
makes the statement that it doesn't work, with the implication that it doesn't 
work ever. Again I would ask people to ignore this. What the population has to 
be made to realise is that although cryonics revivals can't happen right now, 
they may happen in the future. Not will happen, but may happen. It is that "may"
that needs to be taught (not sold) to the world. Once people learn this lesson,
they can make an informed choice as to whether to sign for cryonics or not. 
Whilst they still believe that it will never work, then they are not making an 
informed choice.

-- 
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

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