X-Message-Number: 27895
From: "Jordan Sparks" <>
Subject: RE: Choosing the time
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:14:34 -0700

You realize that the last CI patient was taken off a ventilator only to hang
on for about 6 hours.  Very inconvenient for the funeral director who was
standing around for this "urgent" situation.  There's no simple solution.

A related issue that I've been debating is whether to use my resources to
try to squeeze a few more years out of my life.  An alternative is to pour
everything I have into making sure my cryonic preservation goes well.  It's
basically a complex risk assessment.

So if I take the first strategy, I might spend three hours per day working
on a healthy lifestyle.  This would include exercise, spending time cooking
and preparing healthy foods, researching and shopping for supplements, etc.
This might add 5 years to my life.  It's all a waste of time.

But in the second strategy, I take that three hours per day, and use it to
make more money and build up my immediate response services for the moment
of my death.  This might involve the time and expense of moving closer to a
cryonics facility, saving up large amounts of money and purchasing services
in advance from SA and CI and Alcor and anyone else I can think of.  It
involves the purchase and building of equipment, networking with other
people, marketing, studying, experimenting, etc.

Think about it. Which is really the most effective use of my time?  The
stakes are tremendously high, and the only measure for success is that in
300 years I would still be around.  I think the second strategy is far more
effective.  I don't have time to exercise.  I'm far too busy putting my
emergency response equipment together.  That extra 5 years isn't going to
mean squat.  It's pretty clear to me that even with an extra 5 years, I will
not beat old age.  My son might squeeze through, but not me.  So why even
think about life extension, supplements, etc?   It seems much more sensible
to spend my entire life optimizing the sequence of events which will
immediately follow my death.  The first few hours and days after my death
are absolutely critical.  Yes, of course, I will still try to eat healthy,
but only if it takes the same amount of time as eating poorly.  It's easy to
order healthier foods, but you won't find me chopping up kale or anything.
I eat a bowl of Total in the morning, and that's it for supplements.  I have
yet to see any convincing evidence of a supplement that is worth my time.

The reason I'm bringing all this up is that there are a lot of posts on this
forum that seem to be related to life extension through supplementation.
What is the point?  Really.  Cryonics is the only solution.

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