X-Message-Number: 9774
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 12:08:01 +0100
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: Cryonet:Brenda

In article: <>  
writes:
> From: Brenda Peters, 
> 
> Dear John and other CryoNet readers,

many thanks for taking the trouble to write this article
 
> I've read Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World, Science As A Candle In The
> Dark. Refreshing, inspiring, and worthy of every moment it took to read in
> an already much too short lifespan.

And it is certainly full of arguments that can be used with people who hold 
forth religion and related superstitions as a reason to reject the 
opportunity of cryopreservation. It is also available in audio book formnat, 
so you can listen to it with a personal cassette player. I have added this 
to http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JohndeR/booklist.htm It is 
useful if you have both versions, you can listen to the audio version whilst 
gardening or whatever and can refer back to the paper edition for 
quotations.

> 
> The tradedy of Carl Sagan, (unless God exists, as Dr. Sagan hoped he
> somehow did), is that Saganhb  didn't take advantage of the chance he
> might have had with cryonics.

Maybe this is something we ought to try and study more. Why do learned 
people whose arguments written down in books get so very close to the 
cryonics idea fail the reach it? It certainly can't be because they have not 
heard of it. Unfortunately because of time pressures they are unlikely to 
debate the issue with individuals, but there must be some way of reaching 
them.

(rest del)

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