X-Message-Number: 9952 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 13:57:27 -0400 From: Saul Kent <> Subject: Correction In Cryonet 9946, I said that Isaac Asimov argued that "most people are worth saving." Actually I meant to say that Asimov argued that most people are *not* worth saving. Asimov apparently had no objection to freezing luminaries such as himself (if he had wanted to be frozen), but thought it would be bad for society to have the riff-raff frozen. That's not an uncommon point of view. Many people have said that we should freeze famous scientists, artists and other people who have contributed greatly to society, but that it isn't "worth" freezing the common man (or woman). Thus far, the fact that so few people have opted for cryonics has made it an exceedingly uncommon practice. As a result, any of those frozen in these early years who are ultimately revived will be anything but common in the future. ---Saul Kent Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9952