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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=511