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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:37:08 EDT
Subject: time and tide

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Timing, as they say, is everything.

Today it was announced that a larger study had confirmed excellent results in 
preventing restenosis (recurrence of blockage) in heart attack patients who 
had been given stents (metal mesh inserts) to hold arteries open. Use of the 
right coating was almost completely successful in preventing restenosis in 
the study, and coated stents are expected to become the standard soon. (I 
don't think there is any way to coat existing stents in place.)

I was a little late. I had my heart attack about 4 years ago, and my stent 
isn't coated. If I had had the sense to be born a little later, or to pig out 
less in previous years, I would be better off. My heart looks good now 
despite it all, but I allowed the odds to stack up against me a bit--proving 
that in many ways, much of the time, I'm just as stupid and lazy as most 
other people.

Those who count on the anti-senescence break-throughs to save them, or on 
reversible suspended animation in their natural lifetimes, or on any other 
public bonus, are just playing grasshopper. Praise the Lord (or the Omega 
Point) and pass the ammunition. Time and tide wait for no man (or woman or 
child either). If you haven't signed up for cryonics yet, next week may be 
too late.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org

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