Re: Dying neighbor

joe dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:46:46 -0500

Ask her if there's anything she regrets not having done in her life, and whatever it is, help her to do it.

At Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:40:23 -0700, you wrote:
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>Scott Badger <wbadger@psyberlink.net> replied about how to respond to
>dieing fiends:
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>> Persuade her to consider cryonic preservation.
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> If a religious person came to me when I was on my death bead
>and tried to persuade me to do something like "repent and believe in
>Jesus so that I might be saved" I'd be terribly offended and hurt by
>such an act.
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> What are the odds that any average Joe or Jane, on their death
>bed, would not be offended by an extropian preaching the possibility
>of cryonic salvation?
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> Pushing cryonics is of course the action I'd like to take when
>faced with the death of a friend or family member. But how will they
>take it? Just how much of this can we do for how many people? When
>death isn't close most people aren't to receptive to the idea of
>cryonics. Does this ever change when people are actually on it's
>doorstep?
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> Brent Allsop
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher



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