X-Message-Number: 6173
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 12:31:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Henry R. Hirsch" <>
Subject: Women in cryonics

Questions:  Are women under-represented in cryonics?  If so, why?

I started thinking about these questions because women are very much
under-represented in my family, and I don't know what to do about it.  My
wife gets so upset when the topic comes up that I don't discuss it any more.
She thinks the idea of being frozen is macabre and says she doesn't want to
come back to an unfamiliar world.  My 89-year-old mother feels that one time
around is enough. 

Perhaps it is not coincidental that very few women's names appear on the
cryonet or in the cryonics literature. Maybe cryonics appeals more strongly
to scientists and engineers - mostly male - than to others.  Maybe men enjoy
life more than women and are therefore more anxious to extend it.

I would like to get peoples' reactions to the above questions.  Also, are
there any good arguments that might be helpful in overcoming emotional - as

opposed to intellectual - objections to cryopreservation?  Thanks for your help.

                                                        Hank Hirsch
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Henry R. Hirsch                      
Department of Physiology                   Phone: (606)323-5438
MS508 Chandler Medical Center              Fax:   (606)323-1070
University of Kentucky                     E-Mail: 
Lexington, KY 40536-0084
USA

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