X-Message-Number: 987
From:  (David A. Roth)
Subject: Re: cryonics: #980 - #983
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 00:20:25 EST


In Regards to your letter <>:
> Message: #980 - Bruce's Wager
> From: Bruce White 3807 <>
>
> . . .
> 
> Let's say that you're a 30-something individual. You've got a decent
> job, a nice social circle, a fairly comfortable existence. If you could,
> would you prefer to be frozen in your current physical state then in 
> a 70 year-old's body?
> 
> The bottom line: are you ready to die now in order to be reborn?
> 
> [ Here is an old cryonics aphorism: "Getting frozen is the second worst
>   thing that can happen to you."  (The worst being dying without getting
>   frozen.)  Since recovering from the injury introduced by today's
>   freezing methods seems at least as complex as recovering from old age,
>   I see no advantage to getting frozen now to avoid aging, whereas I see
>   a LOT of disadvantages. - KQB ]

I guess I don't see what the point is in being 30 years old now or
30 years old in the future.  

David

[ David, I guess the future is supposed to be better.  But I don't see
  the point in belaboring this question any further since getting frozen
  now just to avoid aging doesn't sound like a rational gamble. - KQB ]

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