Hello to everyone,
Back in the 90s when i found bob ettinger, one thing that puzzled him was the same that is puzzling fellow cryonisists today: why aren't there more of us? with the terrible specter of Death staring us in the face, why arent there more people signed up to be suspended until science can come to our rescue?
i could postulate two or three suggestions. but i wont waste my time. my shoulder is too sore--for one thing--and this is the wrong forum for another. one idea that i have seen is that too few of the public have even heard of the idea of "deep-freezing our dead bodies" with the hope that future technologies will be able to bring us back in some distant future. The solution would seem to be fairly easy: educate people about the odds of this being implemented.
At most, perhaps 12 or 14 people in my writing group knew of my plans to be suspended. Even in Seattle, which is reasonably open-minded, the group looked at me with a rather brusque sniff. not all, but a sizable minority. one woman asked me about my family? {after all, considering that i was in a wheelchair, that precluded life insurance. and after i retired, my employer's insurance would end.) the godly or skeptics asked why i wouldnt face my end like everyone else.
i may have asked closer friends one more time. Awnsers tended toward the negative. Odds were too long; not enough money for wife and son, etc. i havent asked anybody since.
my thinking to the problem of there being so few of us is the lack of information. starting up an informational campaign is much less costly now than even a generational ago, but it is the only thing i can think of.
Anybody else? Starting a website is super-cheap these days. if this group comes up with a clever name for a non-profit site, we need ideas. humor works best!
gary