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Subject: RE:Catch-22
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:59:44 EDT

Guys, I don't seem to be communicating to you properly.
Yes, I am dubious about us ever reviving someone, but 
not one who considers the idea to be utter bilge. It is the
people I discuss cryonics with who think it to be horsefeathers.
Right now I am *very* limited in what research I can support, and
I feel nanotechnology is a higher priority for my few dollars. Later
I will maybe support cryonics research, and _perhaps_ even sign up.
Even if it doesn't pan out, there will be spin-offs in cryobiology. But
when I talk to people about cryonics, THEY JUST DON'T BELIEVE.
Not "probably won't work"..."ain't gonna work!". Maybe my state is
inhabited by Cro-Magnons (not neanderthals...they do drive cars here
:-)).
Or maybe I'm a much worse salesman than you people are. 
It just seems to me, based on my conversations with others, that
the only thing that will make 99 and 44 hundreths percent of the
population even consider cryonics would be a successful revival.
And once that happens, only a very small and dwindling population
will ever be suspended, because 99 44/100 % of the causes of death will
be cured before medicine advances *that* far, and 55/100 % will be
incurable no matter _how_ far medicine advances. So I think that we will
never
see more than a very small fraction of a percent of the population
suspended.
Tom Mazanec

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