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

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