X-Message-Number: 28471
From: "Ejay Hire" <>
Subject: Re: Selling Cryonics
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:39:06 -0500

Message #28466
Subject: Selling cryonics?

> Perhaps there is some confusion in the public as to what exactly cryonics
offers?
> Cryonics is a technique that allows the indefinite preservation of a body,
> enabling it to wait until the technology to revive it and restore it to
health is developed.

I've had the opportunity to explain Cryonics to several people, technical
and non-technical.  The best way I've found of explaining it is to draw
analogies to a fairy tale.

Here is the canned speech.

Me: That's my cryonics bracelet. 
Them:  cryonics?  What's that?
Me:  Have you ever ever heard the story of rip van winkle?  He goes in the
woods and falls asleep for 20 years, then wakes up?  That's what cryonics
is.  When I die, this company will freeze my body and wake me back up when
technology catches up in the future.
Them:  5% like walt disney? 1% like ted williams? 94% some befuddled look
like I'm a crazy person
Me: I don't want to live forever, but it would be really neat to meet my
great great grandchildren.

... 

This is the point where I'd like to have something to give to them ... A
little mini-book .. perhaps with a comic book story of cryonics,
reanimation, and links to Alcor and CI.

BTW, "cryonics death in the deep freeze" from national geographic is on
google videos now.

-Ejay

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