X-Message-Number: 3516
Date:         Wed, 21 Dec 94 10:48:12 EST
From: Rafi Haftka <>
Subject:      CRYONICS

Will Dye's message about his wife objections to cryonics is  very familiar
to me since my wife is quite opposed to it too. I can offer a strategy that
I have found useful in talking to her and other people as well. I present
cryonics as the equivalent of religion (since I am an atheist, this
is not much of a problem). I tell people that one important part of
religion is permitting us to face our mortality with some hope of an
afterlife. Cryonics does the same thing, and for somebody like me,
who is an engineer, it is more appealing than the idea that I have
an immortal soul. I point out to people that even if I do have an immortal
soul, cryonics does not kill it, and so I get a double chance instead of a
single one. However, the main thing is that cryonics is something that makes
me face death more easily.

I think that people can accept cryonics as a sort of religion more easily,
because they know that religions are very different, and they are
conditioned to be  tolerant towards other people's religious beliefs.


Rafi Haftka

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