X-Message-Number: 8781
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:42:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Steve Harris's post

Steve Harris suggests that the #1 response among non-cryonicists to the 
idea of cryonics is fear that it might work.

In my experience, the #1 response is total skepticism, as soon as the idea
moves from the abstract ("interesting concept") to the personal ("You
mean, would *I* do it?"). 

I don't know whether the skeptics would react in the manner that Steve 
describes if we were able to demolish their skepticism. But there is only 
one way to find out; and that is by making the procedure more plausible. 
The only way I can see of doing that is by demonstrating reversible 
cryopreservation.

--Charles Patt

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