X-Message-Number: 15250
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 22:20:50 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Cryonics not "either/or".

Doug Skrecky, #15238, says:

> My own philosophy is that one rabbit in hand in worth two in the
>bush. Staying alive in "this" life a lot more interesting, than any
>most-mortum arrangements some of us may or may not make. 
> That's why taking Policosanol to inhibit plaque 
>in arteries easily tops cryonics as an item of interest in my own case. 

It appears you don't have cryonics arrangements (correct me if I'm wrong,
and accept my apologies). But cryonics is not an either/or proposition, in
competition with other approaches to life extension. Keep taking Policosanol
if you want, it may indeed have some benefit, but my advice is get signed up
too. If you think you have discovered an elixir that will make you
unkillable, I think you are far mistaken, and it's good to have the safety
net of cryonics under you, even if it is far from perfect. It's good for you
personally, but it's also good in terms of setting an example for others.
Roughly 50 million people die each year. Almost none of them are preserved
for a possible reanimation. Their brains turn to molecular constituents
(trying to be charitable with the terminology). Is this a good thing? Would
it be *better*, perhaps, if they did something different, tried to see that
those precious remains were preserved as well as possible for whatever
posterity might be able to do with them? I think so.

Mike Perry

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