X-Message-Number: 9116
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 07:50:59 -0800
From: Peter Merel <>
Subject: Odds and Sods

Charles Platt writes,

>As Saul Kent has said often, it doesn't matter whether cryonics has a 
>bad chance or a good chance of working, as it is practiced today. Our 
>first priority should be to _increase_ that chance.

Indeed - so to reiterate from the last time this subject cropped up,
the answer to the question "how likely is it?" is "how much effort will
you spend on it?" If you want cryonics to become feasible, safe, even
reliable, then you need to get stuck in:

+ write about it like Charles, Jim, Bob & Tom
+ bankroll it like Saul, Paul & co.
+ research it like Mike, Greg, Brian, etc.
+ practice it like the stalwarts at CC, Alcor, ACS and CI

Or if you can't do that, at least Make Preparations To Sign Up. It often
appears on this list that folk, including yours truly, have some peculiar
belief that if we just talk enough about it, organize and congregate, and
if we really really want it, it'll just happen by magic. Well, sorry, the
church is down the street a ways. When you wish upon a star your wish is
lost and forgotten.

If you're not part of the solution here, your complacency is the factor 
that makes cryonics doubtful. We don't have reversible cryonic suspension 
*now* because of your own, personal, complacency. Yeah, you, gentle reader. 
If you want to live forever, pull your finger out and do something about it.

Peter Merel.

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