X-Message-Number: 12516
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 00:25:04 -0700
Subject: Re: CryoNet #12503 - #12504
From: John W Perry <>

Unfortunately, Charles Platt is completely right on this business of
strange people in cryonics.

As someone who was at some the Cryonics Meetings in New York some ten
years ago until the regular meetings stopped.  I must admit that some of
the people there were downright strange and bizarre.  Without naming
names, I think anyone who was there can agree on that there were some odd
people present.   I do not mean this in a positive way.

I was one of the few "normal" and, despite my attempts to be unique,
rather conventional people who attended semi-regularly and I brought a
number of other 'normal' people to the meetings over the years.   These
people would ask me what kind of weirdos these people were and I'd just
say that they were eccentric but harmless.   I kind of hoped that at the
meetings were wouldn't be any really strange behavior or comments, so the
visitor(s) could possibly draw a favorable impression.  Alas, I do not
think I was so successful.

My friends seldom would come more than once and they themselves made up
nearly half of the newcomers who attended meetings of the New York City
cryonics discussion group from approximately 1990 to the mid-1990s when
the regular meetings stopped.  

Anyway, I agree with the 


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