X-Message-Number: 20470 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:01:31 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #20460 - #20469 Hi everyone! A totally different subject than the recent Conference: one more idea explaining why so many people refuse to take up cryonics. Not long ago my mother died, of Alzheimer's. I would have counted her as dead several years ago, when she needed help even to recognize her children ... and even with help did not do so. My father died earlier than that. And along the way I got to see the behavior of noncryonicists to such an event, up close. Basically almost all my relatives did their best to prevent me from even talking with my mother or father. My father, I know, specifically wanted to talk to me, but nobody even told me he was sick until he had died. So let's look at the mind of someone who at time 0 does not believe in cryonics, and who has behaved in such ways toward one of their dying relatives, to which they are supposed to be "close". If any further information comes up which puts cryonics in a better light they have lots of reasons to deny it. Even if we someday revive a few people, they will deny the possibility that many can be revived. Why? Because if they came around to our views they would by doing so realize that they had committed heinous immoral acts against their own kin. By their refusal of cryonics they can believe they are the good, moral people they wanted to be. Just one more idea to put into the pot. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20470