X-Message-Number: 511
Date: 26 Oct 91 17:34:32 EDT
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: cryonics: #510

This story sounds like the typical crap put out by many science fiction
writers and others about cryonics. It doesn't deserve refutation.

It is interesting, though, to wonder what will happen if and when we do
reach expected future lifespans going into millenia or the indefinite
future. The kind of story in this message, other than its relation to
cryonics, comes straight from the "ghost story --- horrible death" 
tradition. Murder mysteries are also one more related literary form. It's
not hard to find evidence of the common mortalist fascination for death.

My personal opinion is that every single one of these forms will simply
disappear; not that any government will legislate against them, but that
people will completely lose interest (perhaps, except for a few people
with a historical bent, trying to understand how people thought and felt
back in the bad days). In itself that would be a major change in art and
literature, since just about every piece of "good literature" concerns
itself, one time or another, with death.

Comments, anyone?
					Thomas Donaldson

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