X-Message-Number: 1618
From:  (David Lubkin)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 12:14:48 EST
Subject: CRYONICS Quotations

Here's the full Dylan Thomas poem.  I love the letter from Franklin
to Priestley.  What other famous figures have made strong anti-death,
pro-immortality, or pro-cryonics statements that I can refer to in
argument?  (I object to appeals to authority from other people, but
I am not averse to using them as rhetorical weapons myself.)

-- David Lubkin.

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DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    -- Dylan Thomas, May 1951

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