X-Message-Number: 32123
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:04:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Luke Parrish <>
Subject: Self Sacrifice

> Maybe Dr Stodolsky is correct from one point of view -- a
> practitioner of self sacrifice is not going to be drawn to
> the cryonics movement. Therefore no one with this
> personality trait is going to be found within it.


Cryonics can be seen as an act of self sacrifice. You don't really know whether 
the person you are when you die remains afterward, you could be just sacrificing
to make sure at least some of your ideas and thoughts remain in the future. 
This is similar to sacrificing for one's children.


On the other hand, assuming it *does* save lives, involvement in the cryonics 
movement benefits the world at large by opening up the opportunity for cryonics 
for more people, who would otherwise be dead.


Cryonics practiced on a larger scale is cheaper. If everyone was a cryonicist, 
we could preserve people (storage wise) for under a dollar per year. Nobody 
would be too poor to afford cryopreservation -- a very small subsidy by richer 
people could render the service completely free. It is thus incredibly selfish 
not to be a cryonicist in my opinion.

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