X-Message-Number: 1577
From:	Ralph Merkle <>
Subject: Re: Need a Sound Bite [G.Smyth]
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:08:34 PST


Don't use "immortality."  The word pushes almost every wrong button
that it is possible to push.  How about:

"I just want to say alive and healthy, but today's medical technology
can't always do it.  So when today's doctors say they can't help me anymore,
I'd like to go to a hospital in 2192.  If a doctor in 1792
said you were dying and he couldn't help you, wouldn't you want a
second opinion from a doctor in 1992?  With cryonics, you can
actually go to a hospital in 2192 and take advantage of all the
amazing medical breakthroughs that will be made during the next
century or two."

And you might also explain that yes, you do indeed expect that the medical
technology of the future will be able to give EVERYONE a very long and
healthy life.  You just want to have what the average person of 2192
will have.

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