X-Message-Number: 4725
Date: 06 Aug 95 11:12:59 EDT
From: "Kent, Saul" <>
Subject: Survival

	I agree with Thomas Donaldson that cryonics has "a chance" of
surviving. I also think that today's patients have "a chance" of
surviving. But "a chance" of surviving doesn't satisfy me. I'm looking
the "best possible chance" of surviving!
	I got into cryonics in 1965 at the age of 25. Today I'm 56. In
the past 31 years, there has been some progress in cryonics as well as in
aging research, but the prognosis for me personally is worse today than
it was in 1965.
	As a result, I have very little patience for those who "argue"
about the future of cryonics, aging control, uploading, and other
possible means of extending lifespan. I think all these things and more
are likely to occur, but my primary interest is the possibility of *my*
continued occurrence in the future.
	For me, the only question that really matters is whether I will
benefit from future advances in life extension. The only meaningful
answer I've ever found to that question is that the more I do personally
to further progress in life extension, the better my chance of survival
is likely to be.
	As a result, I'm much more interested in what's being *done* than
what's being *said*, unless you're talking about what you've done!

---Saul Kent


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