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Comment author: advancedatheist 05 July 2010 04:43:35PM *  5 points [-]

Cryonics doesn't necessarily need more male propeller heads. I think it would benefit from more women, married couples and entire families, which would give it the vitality and durability of mainstream social structures like churches. Unfortunately I don't know how to overcome the "hostile wife phenomenon," as well as the fact that a commitment to cryonics resists generational transmission.

As an example of the latter, Marce Johnson entered the paleo-cryonics scene in the 1960's, and she had 40 years to show her children through precept and example that she wanted cryonic suspension for herself. To summarize a long story, despite efforts to raise money for her cryotransport with CI after she developed Alzheimer's and lost her suspension arrangements with another organization, she died and the daughter with POA over her had her cremated, then informed Marce's cryonicist friends after the fact, apparently out of spite.

Comment author: lsparrish 05 July 2010 05:28:01PM 13 points [-]

Early adopters are (relatively) crazy and have to put up with ridicule from their friends because it's not cool yet. That's just how it goes. The trouble is that cryonics has stayed in the early adopter phase for 40 years.

Suddenly I have the mental image of a t-shirt reading "I was into cryonics before it was cool."

Comment author: ata 06 July 2010 06:42:43AM 4 points [-]

Suddenly I have the mental image of a t-shirt reading "I was into cryonics before it was cool."

I want one.

Comment author: Alicorn 06 July 2010 07:12:32AM 4 points [-]

I want a shirt that says "I was into cryonics before I was cooled."