X-Message-Number: 767
Date: 25 Apr 92 02:50:50 EDT
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: cryonics: #764 - #766

Dear Michael:

I too have seen this far too many times to be angry. And it has happened
in my own family, too. I would say with Ettinger that all of Feinberg's
"farsightedness" was a sham. Bob the Repairman had something Bob Heinlein
lacked.

I have felt for some time that we should not go running after public
figures, for just this reason. Some of them may eventually join up, and
that's fine, since the loss of any human personality is a very great loss.
But there seems to be no correlation between fame and farsightedness at
all. This may say something about how people bubble up to visibility in
our society (and every other present society). But regardless, they've
never made very good candidates for membership. 

					Best
						Thomas

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