X-Message-Number: 3936
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 17:13:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Ben Best <>
Subject: Speaking to University students


    I'd love to talk to some neuroscience students at USCD about 
cryonics, but 3,000 miles is a bit far to go. I have a special 
interest in neuroscience, and I have already given cryonics 
presentations that stress neuroscience issues.

   For 5 consecutive years I have booked a room at the University of
Toronto and advertised heavily to attract some students who would 
listen to my talk on cryonics and life extension. Yes, students are
poor and death is remote to them.  And it's true that I've never gotten
a cryonics sign-up out of these lectures. But I have succeeded in 
convincing a lot of very intelligent young people that cryonics can
make scientific sense. 

    One student, for example, has now finished his PhD in Neurophysiology 
and is in his second year of medical school. At our last cryonics dinner
I gave him 3 copies of REACHING FOR TOMORROW because some of his fellow
students are interested in cryonics. Another U of T student who was 
doing graduate work in neuroscience has now shifted his studies to 
chemistry so he can do better work on brain preservation and nanotechnology.
A biochemistry student who wants to solve the "aging problem" is now also
sympathetic to the cryonics approach.

    Frankly, I'm very interested in arousing scientific interest in solving
the technical problems of cryonics, even if that doesn't translate into
immediate signed-up cryonicists. Also, some of these students have given
me some good ideas.



    On another note -- I announce to all that I am in the process of 
shifting my Internet activities to a new service provider. Please note
my new Internet address.

                -- Ben Best ()

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