X-Message-Number: 3222 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 20:44:39 EDT From: Subject: Re: motivation CRYONICS One other factor that may reduce the number of people either in cryonics or supporting life extension: Of the people who have rejected religious solutions, many may overgeneralize from that to rejecting as implausible ANY technique that promises a possibility of avoiding death from aging. Perhaps cryonicists are in a narrow range between people who accept a supernatural afterlife and those who reject any possibility of surviving past 100 as too good to be true. In the language of memes: Mental immune systems are hard to tune! Best wishes, -Jeffrey Soreff standard disclaimer: I do not speak for my employer. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3222