From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 14:18:42 MST
Life-long friend and fellow sci-fi guru; Fredrick Pohl, said that "Issac was
despessed during the last year of his life from taking industrial strength
lasix and waiting to die." I suspect he would not look happilly upon
Extropianism or Transhumanism. You guys would be arguing with him,
rationalist, though he may have been.
In a message dated 12/18/1999 3:20:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
hal@finney.org writes:
> Yes, I think the story was motivated by the U.S. Bicentennial celebration
> in 1976, hence the name. Asimov had many good traits, but it did
> seem throughout his writings that he viewed death positively. He was
> a typical 1970's liberal, worried about overpopulation, pollution,
> exhaustion of resources, etc.
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