X-Message-Number: 7205 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 02:08:19 -0500 From: Brent Fox <> Subject: SF recruiting To: Randy () From: Brent Fox () Date: Nov 23, 1996 In Message #7184 you wrote: >Maybe I'm wrong, but haven't most people been recruited into cryonics >through a friend/acquaintance? Is that venue actually more numerically >successful than media publicity? That is a very interesting question. Perhaps some sort of questionnaire could be developed and sent to all people who are signed up for cryonics. The main thing the questionnaire would ask is how you became interested in cryonics and what influenced you to actually sign up for it. The results could be used to formulate better "recruiting" methods. Of course anonymity for the respondents would be provided. An even more intersting idea would be to have a psychological test to see if there are common personality traits among members. Granted, this project would be more complicated, infeasible, and would probably not be well recieved by all. People like their privacy. I dare say that we would not find a "magic bullet" for successful recruitment. I became interested in the idea cryonics through exposure to Sci-Fi stories, and movies when I was quite young. Seeing Charlton Heston as the astronaut George Taylor in "Planet of the Apes" giving himself a shot and going into suspended animation and waking up 2000+ years later started sparking my imagination. Also, "2001", "Armageddon 2419 A.D." (aka Buck Rogers), "Genesis II", "Planet Earth" kept fueling my imagination. One day back around 1975 or '76 I found a short article in "Future Life" magazine about Alcor. I thought it was so *great* that someone was actually working on a form of suspended animation. I tucked this little story away in the back of my mind. Fast forward to the time of the Omni contest. I read the article and started *Seriously* thinking if I would really want to be placed in cryonic suspension. I thought A LOT about it. Obviously, the ultimate answer was "yes". Yeah, I wrote an essay for the contest, but didn't wait to see if I won. <g> I signed up during that time. I guess that makes me one of the 12+. But, the article by itself was not what convinced me. It was my overall *exposure* to the idea. I see cryonics as my ticket to the future. I hope to actually visit Mars, Europa, and Titan. Who knows what the future holds for us if this "great experiment" works. Brent *********************************************************** Brent Fox PGP FINGERPRINT 1E 19 41 F9 32 32 2F 70 4D C4 FB 14 3B E8 F0 50 Public key available upon request. *********************************************************** Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7205