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From: "Timur Rozenfeld" <>
Subject: To freeze or not to freeze
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:47:58 -0600

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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


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