X-Message-Number: 513 Date: 29 Oct 91 21:29:37 EST From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: Re: cryonics: #512 My own problem with the story is simply that there have been far too many scary cryonics stories. Sure, people can be introduced to the idea: but if they never meet it except in the context of fear and (as seen by a cryonicist) evil and malfeasance, the idea is hardly going to attract them. Think about the way you may have been told about "drugs" when you were a kid. Or for that matter, about any group or idea not in favor. One interesting development in cryonics has been a growing obsession with identity. It's interesting because it may suggest which way we will take: instead of simple "death", we may culturally see many stories about the theme of identity, its loss, regaining it, twisting it, injuring it, enhancing it, etc. Personally I suspect that murder stories will seem forgotten and childish: a rather blunt thing to do to someone, when there are so many far more subtle things .... Best Thomas Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=513