X-Message-Number: 13749 Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 23:35:07 +0400 From: Mikhail Soloviev <> Subject: Russian web poll on cryonics There was a cryonics poll on a Russian web search site "Aport" (www.aport.ru). It was ordered by "Kommersant- Dengi" ("Businessman-Money"), one of the best Russian business weekly magazine. A journalist of this magazine prepares an article on cryonics (I and some other cryonicists help him). I think, he was an author of this poll. The question was: "Would you like to be frozen after your death? (Why)" If you click on "Why" you see the following help window: "The scientists, conducting cryonics research, state, that the body, frozen in liquid nitrogen according to all rules, can be stored hundreds years without change. And they don't exclude that the possibility to return this body to life will appear in the far future. In the West the body-freezing service is very popular. For example, there is "Cryonics Society" in the USA that people join before the death with the hope to be resurrected in the future. There were rumors that such known people as Salvador Dali and Walt Disney bequeathed to freeze their bodies after the death." Today the journalist sent me the preliminary results of this poll. Number of answers: 831 Yes, of course: 93 (11.2%) Yes, if I will have money: 36 (4.3%) Maybe: 91 (11.0%) Rather no: 131 (15.8%) Never: 100 (12.0%) I'm very surprized by your question: 380 (45.7%) -- Mikhail Soloviev Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13749