X-Message-Number: 23272
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:16:10 +0800 (CST)
From: =?big5?q?kurt2100kimo?= <>
Subject: A response to Charles Platt

Hello to All,

I read here some time ago a posting from Charles Platt
about why he no longer has a personal interest in
being cryonically suspended. In it, he mentioned that
he did not want to come back into a world "transformed
beyond recognition" (I believe these were his words)
where no one was left that he new from "before".

This is precisely the scenario that I look forward to
and IS the reason why I am interested in cryonics. I
have made a major move twice in my life. The first was
from Spokane, Washington to Southern California, when
I was 22. The second was from Phoenix to Tokyo when i
was 28. Moving from LA to Phoenix, and from Tokyo to
Kaoshiung (in Southern Taiwan) were "lateral moves"
that did not involve a major change in my life.

In both instanses, I re-invented my life and my self.
Both times, I hated the first 8-10 months, then
absolutely loved it there after. I expect coming out
of cryonic suspension will be the same, except that I
can never "go back home" again. You create a new
persona and life for yourself and make new friends.
The difference is that coming out of suspension into
an "ageless" society, the problem of finitude (the
itch you can't scratch) no longer exists. You CAN
always "look outward" if whatever life you're stuck
with pisses you off. There will always be an open door
and something new to look forward to.

If relatively few of us make it, our relationship wit
the rest of society will be analogous to the "gaijin"
in Japan. We will be kind of like a subculture in the
new society. I have lived this life and have achieved
happiness in it. I can do it again.

The only "psychological" requirements that I need to
be happy is that I come out fully competent and
competitive (in ability and opportunity) with the best
that that society has to offer. Everything else is the
open horizon.

Sincerely,

Kurt



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