From: Randy (cryon@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 17:54:35 MST
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:46:40 PST, you wrote:
>
>>4) Is life insurance even Transhuman? I'm betting I'll die before my
>>>family does. The whole point of being transhuman is that I DON'T
>>>WANNA DIE!
>>But you have to get to the time when immortalist technology is routine.
>The
>>only way I know of is via the Dewar.
>>>I'd almost rather spend the money on staying healthy - supplements,
>etc.
>>And even if you get 50 more years, you die, dead, the real death.
>>>Any thoughts? Suggestions?
>>
>
>Why is are you so worried about dying anyway? You never existed for
>billions of years before you were born, and that isn't too frightening a
>thought, to why should not existing again be so terribe?
>Besides what if you die and it is a pleasurable experience
Yeeh, and tell yourself that when you are crossing the street and see
a semi truck bearing down on you.....
>(....maybe
>there is a heaven) and then you get brought back from it to spend
>another 50 years in this grim old place, surrounded by scientists doing
>tests on you, in an alien world, where probably all your friends and
>family have died, leaving you all alone. .....And to think you never
>went on that holiday to Hawii in your original life, just to pay for
>the priviledge......
Let's face it: Life is all we have.
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Randy
Cryonics: Gateway to the Future?
http://www.mindspring.com/~cryon/cryonics/cryopage1.html
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