X-Message-Number: 6256
From:  (Charles Platt)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: LA Times, Leary & cryonics
Date: 23 May 1996 15:51:50 -0400
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References: <4nfgke$> <4nfini$>

It has been suggested that Timothy Leary did not have the courage to 
follow through on cryonics.

I am not a total Leary fan, but I think this is unfair to him. At various
times (most notably inside the federal prison system, and when escaping
from it) he showed amazing courage--more courage than I have, and I'm
signed up for cryonics. 

What he does not seem to have is an interest in planning ahead. He has
always gone for quick gratification, quick payoff. This was very much a
sixties trait: forget the future, get high right now on [your choice
here]. No one was very interested in delayed gratification. 

Cryonics, however, requires us to make some sacrifice today (financial, 
life style, whatever) in the hope of the most delayed gratification one 
can imagine.

--CP
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Charles Platt                                   


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