aargghh, I don't think I'll get to use cryonics because I'm getting
cremated here.
I didn't express myself overly well, sorry for wasting everyone's time.
What I meant was that, psychologically, cryonics feels like arranging
your own funeral. I support using cryonics, I think its a good last
option, but to actually address it in your life must be like arranging
your own burial site.
Or is it like getting life insurance?
Emlyn
ps: If I become transhuman, can I get a transdoggy?
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>"It's not suprising that you don't sign up for cryonics - I wonder if
^^^^ just here, I meant that I would be suprised if anyone on the list
had arranged their burial site, not cryonics.
>From: Scott Badger[SMTP:wbadger@psyberlink.net]
>anyone on this list actually has? It's like setting up your gravesite.
>While many people actually do buy plots of land, etc, just for that
>purpose, I'd be VERY suprised if people on this list are amongst their
number.
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>No-one here is overly interested in dying, when it comes down to it, and
>cryonics is about dying+hope."
>
>Yes, Emlyn. Be surprised. Be very surprised. There are a number of
>individuals signed up for cryonic suspension because they believe it is a
>highly rational option. I fail to appreciate your analogies. It is *not*
>like buying a plot of ground in which I will decay and be irreversibly lost,
>and cryonics is not about dying+hope. Cryonicists do not believe that a
>person is truly dead until the structure of the brain is irreversibly
>degraded. For us, the choice is unbelieveably simple: die and rot or be
>frozen and wait for technology to reanimate you. If something happens to
>prevent your reanimation (you're accidently defrosted), what exactly have
>you lost? I recommend you read a bit more on the subject by perusing the
>web sites of cryonics firms, and the archives of the Cryonet mailing list.
>
>One last comment re:
>
>"We will drag this planet, kicking and screaming, into the stark and
>unknowable future... We will do it before our parents die of old age."
>- The Extropian Banner
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>Is that T-shirt for sale yet, Eliezer?
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott
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