X-Message-Number: 5949 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:18:47 -0500 From: (Brett Corlett) Subject: The Simpsons Well cryonics awareness must be really rising these days because on tonights Simpsons episode there was a reference to cryogenics (their word, not cryonics). It was not exactly complimentary but what can you expect from the Simpsons. For those who care what happened was that a person who had lost his money from a law suit was approached by Bart and Lisa. The man after talking about other things mentions that one of the things that his loss of money resulted in was not being able to "afford the upkeep on his fathers head at the cryogenics place." They then show a normal cooler on the table. The thing about it was the way it was presented was not as a shot at cryonics, that was not the funny part, it was not that cryonics was absurd but a reasonable (but I guess expensive, from their point of view) although not mainstream thing to do. Or something the rich do. I guess any publicity is good publicity. If the cost is the only issue to be tackled in convincing the public in general we can't be that far from complete recognition as a reasonable and intelligent choice. Brett Corlett Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5949