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

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