X-Message-Number: 12345 From: Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:32:47 EDT Subject: Re: Questions (Msg #12311) > From: Adam Hunter <> > Subject: questions > > I have a couple of questions for the people on this list who plan to be > frozen: > > 1. In any way does cryonics provide the same sort of psychological > comfort that religion provides for some people? Have you just replaced > heaven with the future? > Don't know, heaven is a nonsens to me, I have no religious beliefs and never had. > 2. Since you plan to live forever, what are your long term goals? How > do you look at life differently than somebody who expects to live a > short life span? > I am interested in space exploration and astronomy. Here, present day projects may extent, from first idea to results, for more than 20 years. If we want to go farther, with bigger systems, some projects would expand well in the century domain... On the investment front, I am interested by 2- 3 percent return/year or even less if there is some other benefits. For example sowing long lived trees with harvesting horizon in the century range. I think a sustainable technology must be dominated by long term projects. You can't manage a planet as Earth if you can't seriously think beyond some centuries. A political view limited in time to the next election is the worst you can get after financial speculation at one month horizon on the stock exchange. >2. Are any of you afraid of your bodies falling into the wrong hands >after your frozen? It is possible that you might be reanimated as some >kind of lab animal. > >-adam > Laboratory animal is a bad technology, it is phased out right now I don't see why it would be used in the comming centuries. May be a pet or a zoo animal... If you can't adapt, then yes you may turn into a kind of living fossil. Anyway, it will be a personal choice. Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12345