X-Message-Number: 9719
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 03:58:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: cryonics survey

I uploaded the following survey to a few newsgroups, but never got any
replies, perhaps because it was insufficiently amusing. Food for thought.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

    I was wondering why cryonics is so unpopular. After being frozen there
 is at least a theoretical possibility of coming back, without having to
 rely on divine intervention. Nonetheless the two alternatives cremation
 and burial see virtually all of the unh - business. Then one day an apple
 fell out of a tree and hit yours truly on the head. Bong. It's the money.
 Here's the approximate cost and percentage of the business for the three
 options:

      Option      Cost   Percentage of Business
 ____________________________________________
    cremation:   $1,000         70%
       burial:   $3,000         29.9999%
     cryonics: $100,000+         0.0001%

    The following is a survey designed to see how cheap cryonics would
 need to be, to be competitive. Please note that the price is not cash on
 the barrel head. Cryonics is usually financed by life insurance, and that
 the life insurance provided gratis by many companies for their employees
 is also accepted.
    Here's the survey. Check the largest amount below where you would at
 least consider cryonics as an option. (I mean consider, not choose, for
 who knows what one will choose when the time comes.) Then email the
 result to myself at  I will post the statistical results
 of this survey on this same newsgroup.


   __ $100,000  (I have money to burn! - I mean freeze with)

   __  $28,000  (one cryonics company offers this low ball price)

   __  $15,000  (company sponsored life insurance often covers this)

   __  $10,000  (price of a good used car)

   __   $5,000  (price of a Great! Stereo)

   __   $3,000  (same price as burial - cheapskate)

   __  2 cents  (what the heck)

   __   zip     (against my religion)

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