X-Message-Number: 19088
From: "George Smith" <>
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Subject: Objections.
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:56:48 -0700

In Message #19080 Damien Broderick gave some of his reasons for NOT signing
up for cryonics:

OBJECTION: "Too ancient for cheap insurance"
MY COMMENT: What will your net worth be when dead forever?  No current
assets at all?  None?

OBJECTION: "too poor"
MY COMMENT: Apart from insurance, CI costs about what you might spend on a
good pizza each month.  Anyone who can afford an internet connection is
spending about the same amount of money right now.

OBJECTION: "too distant, in Australia, from the few moderately reliable
cryonics installations in the USA"
MY COMMENT: Last I checked jets still fly bodies all over the world - even
from down under.

OBJECTION: "too likely to be found rotting a week after I've died alone in
the house (my partner Barbara usually lives
thousands of miles distant)"
MY COMMENT: And what if that turns out later to not matter?  COULD YOU BE
WRONG?

OBJECTION: "too unconvinced that revival processes will work with corpses
vitrified using today's methods.
MY COMMENT: Now we are probably getting to the truth here.  SO WHAT?  What
if you are wrong and it works anyway?

OBJECTION: "But if I suddenly stumble upon a few million dollars, I think
I'd take the option."
MY COMMENT: You must know that the price tag for even a cash on the
barrelhead approach (no insurance) is about 1% of what you are suggesting.

So what is the REAL reason behind your not signing up?

Or do you actually have one NOT based on trying to outguess the future?

Just my opinion,

George Smith
CI member and Immortalist

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