X-Message-Number: 8793 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 12:49:46 -0800 From: "Dr. Henry R. Hirsch" <> Subject: Voting for Life Extension Here is some evidence that most people want indefinite life extension: Even in extreme old age and even if the treatment for a terminal illness is very unpleasant and of dubious value, most people do not refuse treatment. Some do refuse, some even seek euthanasia, but the great majority struggle on to the bitter end. They "vote" for life extension. They do not want to consider cryonics because to do so would be to acknowledge that they themselves will die. Dying, in the conventional non-cryonics sense of the word, is something that happens to someone else. Dr. Henry R. Hirsch Dept.of Molecular and Cell Biology 401 Barker Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3202 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8793