X-Message-Number: 9609
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 16:47:02 -0400
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Re: Cryonet #9601 Opinions On Why People Don't Sign Up

>Message #9601
>Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:29:09 -0400
>From: Saul Kent <>
>Subject: Opinions On Why People Don't Sign Up

>        Clearly, the long-term answer to fear about offending ones' 
>relatives or friends by signing up for cryonics, is to make cryonics
>a more credible practice through research and validation by mainstream 
>scientists.  However, a short-term answer might be to inform the person(s)
>who aren't signing up because of the fear of peer pressure that they can
>sign up *confidentially*, and that their sign-up can be between them and 
>their cryonics organization.  Perhaps that might work with Joe Strout's 
>parents; perhaps not...but I think it's worth a try.

I am only half joking when I say that perhaps another alternative is to
go and tell all their friends and relatives "for them" that they are
*seriously* considering cryonics.

-- Paul --

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