X-Message-Number: 365 From att!research.att.com!Venus.YCC.Yale.Edu!LEVY%JANE Fri Jun 28 12:45 EST 1991 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 12:45 EST From: LEVY% Subject: cryonics #364: Spouse's approval To: I think it is a little extreme to divorce your wife because she doesn't approve of cryonics. I mean, if she expresses an intention to oppose legally your efforts to have yourself suspended, okay: you have to choose whether she is more important than your suspension. On the other hand, I have never seen anything but disbelief and (good- natured) derision from my family and girlfriends when I told them about my participation in cryonics. So am I supposed to disassociate myself from these people? Of course not! Nor do I expect them to buy the ATTITUDE that suspension is just like an appendectomy, when the null hypothesis is that cryonics won't work. When (if) someone is successfully taken out of suspension, the null hypothesis will have been disproven, but until then, I'm not going to sever any important ties because my loved ones disbelieve something that has never been shown to work. --Simon Levy Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=365