X-Message-Number: 33226
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33214 - #33221
From: David Stodolsky <>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:41:10 +0100
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On 13 Jan 2011, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:
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> 

> I think that people know what cryonics is, and what is more they may even 
consider it to be a medical, rather than funerary, procedure. 
> 

> However they rely on their medical advisors for medical advice, and when that 
advice is to accept their eventual demise they take it.
> 


The effect of advice from doctors is so minor it can be considered non-existent 
according to the Badger results. 
> 

> Religious hypotheses about an after life don't come into it, as they could 
equally apply to the aforementioned stressful period of medical tests followed 
by surgery, which could possibly be disabling .
> 

This is an oversimplification. Medical tests and surgery are seen as part of 
life. Death is seen as unavoidable and attitudes toward it are influenced by 
religious belief. 


Religiosity has the strongest effect on attitudes toward life-extension 
technologies according to both the Badger and Australian data


dss


David Stodolsky
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