X-Message-Number: 15846 From: "BlackShark" <> Subject: Motivation? Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:51:54 -0700 Hi, I was explaining my interest in cryonics to someone and they asked an interesting question that I couldn't answer. They asked, "What would be the motivation for future generations to re-animate me?" A few answers come to mind. If relatives are around and have the means to have me reanimated, they may arrange to have it done. A few "stiffs" may be re-animated out of scientific curiosity. But look at it this way. Say a hundred years from now the technology and medical knowledge does exist to reanimate us. But people a hundred years from now will have their own lives to live and their own problems to worry about. They may be running out of places to live on our finite globe with an ever-increasing population. They may be worried about feeding everyone. What could you or I contribute to society a hundred years from now? We would be so far behind in our knowledge base we would be practically useless to anyone. I suppose we could go back to school and "catch up". But the question remains, what would be their motivation to reanimate a few hundred frozen stiffs? If we, today, had the ability to reanimate people who had been frozen a hundred years ago, besides perhaps re-animating a few for scientific and historical research, what would be our motivation to reanimate everybody. I can't think of any. David King Edmonton, AB Canada Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15846