X-Message-Number: 4858
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 09:22: -1000 (HST)
From: "V. Adrian Lynskey" <>

I've been interested in cryonics for a relatively short time so perhaps
I can add something to this group by way of my naivety.  When I first
started reading about cryonics and read about neuro suspension, I thought
I was going to throw up.  It was a gut reaction.  I felt fear, as though
I had been backed into a corner by a lion and was about to be devoured.
I am an extremely open-minded person, so when I examined my own feelings
over several days I realized that my own fear of death which I like
most people had repressed  had resurfaced as a result of this very real
alternative.  The amazing thing was that after a while my mind adjusted
to the idea and I have felt comfortable with it.  

I believe my experience says something about the problem of "selling"
cryonics to the public.  In the first place  I am not religious and
therefore had not tucked away my mortal fear in the certainty of
life after death.  I believe that it is unproductive to market
that segment of the population.  The group I would go after is
older people, say over 50, many of whom become more open-minded as
they age.  Furthermore, they realize the impending reality of death.

Another comment I want to make is the following: I want you to imagine
that an announcement was made in the newspaper that a vaccine was made
available that would add 25 years to one's life.  Let's say everyone
went down and got the vaccine.  So what.  Nothing would change. If
you think about it most young people think they are immortal anyway.

The final point I want to make in this post is that there should
be a separate news group for morons who want to speculate on all
the different things in the universe that are impossible.  I always
thought it would be helpful to know what reality was before deciding
what is unreal.  Don't we in some sense create reality?  And what
productive energy is spent in naming the impossible?  To me the
idea of immortality and the idea of cryonic suspension are not
different then, say, universal health insurance- a problem in
search of a solution.  So let's do the research and get on with
it.


Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4858