The whole show was liking watching an ImmInst show, the same stuff we talk about here all the time!
It was geared towards older baby boomers for sure, especially the talk about older people increasing in power, gaining respect--and their interviewing inspirational active 100 and 101 year olds--still working, driving and doing all their own yard work. The 76 super model, was hot! I hope to look that good at her age--Paul Newman looks his age, but acts younger--and it is amazing how he has donated millions to charity.
I liked how they warned against using growth hormones, and focused on calorie restriction, supplements--plus the work of Dr. Lanza, and Dr. Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey was at the very beginning, and they used him saying why he was an Alcor member, as a segue into the Alcor piece. Dr. Terry Grossman was in with the medical view of what can be done, and Kurzweil with his 150plus supplements a day. I could tell Barbara Walter's was irritated about aging, in person--and it came through on the show, yet cryonics is too 'out there' for her she told me... ah well--I told her if it worked, and humans colonized other planets she'd be intergalactic someday (this was a cheesy joke, she laughed--it was not serious!). She was most interested in asking me questions about the 'soul' and if cryonics would be 'allowed' to work. They had asked my ex, why he did cryonics--and he said he learned about it from me, that was all totally left out! Plus at the end of the video on the net, I'm reading out of my book to the kids, during the interview Barbara picked the book up and read a bit--animatedly, too bad that didn't use it. They did do other cutsey things she did, like her expressions after taking a sip of wine, that she'd need a 1000 glasses. Also, her driving 150mph with Paul Newman. --The whole show, should bring some new interest into the field of extreme life extension, and I hope ultimately Cryonics--I'll ask Jennifer to post an update in a few weeks--with the response Alcor received from the show. I put some info about Cryonics Institute into the comments under the articles at the ABC news site, hopefully they'll get an increase in queries from all this publicity too! I'll ask Ben. Well, Brenda Kovig has an upcoming documentary about life extension, as does Michael Arth. I know both of those will have cryonics, since I will be in them. The upcoming documentary about Kurzweil I'm not so sure, although I know his people have been in contact with Alcor, he has told Aubrey to the effect that it will be his 'backup' if he doesn't get to live forever now--so nothing final on that front yet (his being a cryonicist). Still, it is great to see the meme getting out there more, of life extension
