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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:34:29 EST
Subject: Re:Drowning and recruitment motivation

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In reply to:  > Message #23563
> From: 
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:02:14 EST
> Subject: more on motivation
> 
> Steve Bridge kindly reminded us that 40 years ago we used the revival of 
> drowning victims to dramatize the relativity of death. In my earlier post 
> today I 
> didn't mention this because I don't think the recruitment problem has much 
> to 
> do with failure to realize that "dead" people might have a chance to live 
> again. 

Scott Badger said something similar.  I didn't mean that this set of 

arguments was particularly useful in getting people to sign up.  However, it is 
still 
a necessary first step in the discussion for nearly everyone hearing the 

concept of cryonics for the first time. We tend to forget that anyone who does 
sign 
up must still get past the initial set of objections, even if most of those 
people do so very quickly.    

Equally important for actually *doing* cryonics, is that we must persuade 
medical personnel, vendors, government officials, and relatives of members to 

cooperate with us in numerous ways.  We don't particularly care that they become
cryonicists; but we do need them to see that cryonics is a sensible approach 
to saving lives, and intellectual arguments can do that. 

Steve Bridge



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