X-Message-Number: 10569 From: "Timur Rozenfeld" <> Subject: To freeze or not to freeze Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:47:58 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003F_01BDF558.6E2222E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marty Kardon wrote: > In a way, particularly for someone with heirs, to pay for suspension > is a sublimely selfish act unless you assume that there will be > something of value you can offer to those in the future distant. I > wonder if anyone else has felt this way, especially those who have > already signed up. You are right! Paying for suspension is a very selfish act. It is the very act of saying "My life is valuable to me. I want to live." Any person that demands that you sacrifice your life for them, or is just a means to their end, is a parasite. A person who loves you won't = think about what your assets, organs or life insurance will be worth when you are dead, but the value that you bring to them and how much = richer their life is by knowing you (the living you). Such a person would most certainly want to see you alive and happy, and would = eventually support any rational option for life extension. On the other hand, a person who sees you only as a resource to be tapped upon your = death would certainly see cryonics as a threat. Timur Rozenfeld ------=_NextPart_000_003F_01BDF558.6E2222E0 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10569