Re: RAW's "Thought for the Week"

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 08 1997 - 11:01:32 MDT


At 07:51 PM 9/8/97 -0700, Derek Strong wrote:
>1) Can anyone explain to me what's going on psychologically with people
>who are on death's door?

Many people consider Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's _On Death and Dying_ some of
the best accessible psychology in this arena... If you're interested, you
might want to pick it up. Be forewarned, though, that it puts a lot of
emphasis on how this is a perfectly natural and *inevitable* psychological
process... Little extropian problem solving here.

>2) Does anyone have any suggestions for what we can do to prevent this?
>How many more of our luminaries will go gently, peacefully into oblivion
>before we begin to stem the tide?

The only thought that leaps to my mind is continued work on life extension
and cryonic reanimation technology. IMHO, the Live/Die/Die/Die grid won't
be convincing until it collapses to a Live/Die grid.

        -SAVE THE WHALES-
     -COLLECT THE WHOLE SET-



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