X-Message-Number: 14427
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: Fwd:  Ben Bova on Cryonics
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:13:07 PDT

Ben Bova is better known as a science fiction writer, but a couple years ago 
he published a nonfiction book titled _Immortality_, 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380793180/> (which really should 
have been titled "Immorbidity," a la Wil McCarthy).  His Website 
<http://www.benbova.net> has a form for submitting questions, so I asked if 
he had signed up for cryonic suspension, and he e-mailed the following 
response:


>From: 
>To: 
>CC:  (Lloyd McDaniel)
>Subject: Cryonics
>Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:04:25 +0000
>
>Dear Mark Plus: I have not signed up for cryonic
>suspension, in part because I live in an area too
>distant from any center that could properly freeze me.
>Also, I expect biomedical advances to make cryonics
>unnecessary within a decade or so. Have you read my book
>IMMORTALITY (Avon Books 1998)? It discusses the research
>now underway on life extension. Ben Bova

Well, at least Bova's heart is in the right place.  But since he must be in 
his 60's by now, I think he's being improvident not to make cryonics 
arrangements.  After all, FM-2030 planned to survive to at least the year 
2030 CE, but his body wasn't cooperating.


Trans-millennially yours,

Mark Plus, Expansionary
"Letting go of the 20th Century."

"Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that 
seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day."  Benjamin 
Franklin, _Autobiography_.

WWXD?
("What would Xena do?")

Affiliations:
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
http://www.alcor.org
American Atheists
http://www.atheists.org
Society for Venturism
http://www.venturist.org

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