X-Message-Number: 8822
From: Olaf Henny <>
Subject: Making Cryonics more User Friendly:
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:27:08 -0800

As I follow closely such NGs as <sci.cryonics>, <sci.life-
extension> and am a subscriber to Cryonet, I notice serious 
factual discussion, where participants often turn accusatory and 
sometimes claw at each other in outright nastiness, but never 
insert any humor.  I am certain, well meaning banter, a twinkle 
of the eye and a bit of human warmth will not discredit a well 
reasoned contention, but would do a lot to extenuate much of the 
cold (and -192 is COLD) ;-) Frankensteinian image of 'mad 
scientists' (vee vill get you too!), who want to freeze people 
and then resurrect them in some future laboratory, and whose 
smile would presumably crack the surface of their prematurely 
frozen faces, making those visages that much harder to repair, 
when time comes for the revival of their bearers.

When I often read about socials, which are organized by the 
various chapters of cryonics organization, I wonder if they are 
all stone-faced affairs, or if humor does indeed sneak in through 
some cracks from time to time.  I abhor slapstick, but think the 
odd well placed quip would give the whole cryonics environment a 
friendlier, more humane atmosphere.

I am convinced, that many people, before they pipe up with 
postings of their own, sneak a peak at the above NGs and are 
turned off by the mostly stern dialogue.

Olaf Henny

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