[extropy-chat] New to the list

[Gregory Propf]

starman2100 at cableone.net wrote:

>Hello Gregory,
>
>Welcome to the list!  You will be regularly finding nuggets of knowledge and 
>wisdom here & get to meet some interesting characters. lol  I recommend you also 
>join Cryonet (the cryonics list).  Rudi Hoffman is a regular contributor to it 
>and a fellow Floridian who is a very dedicated cryonicist and a gregarious 
>gentleman as well. 
>
>www.cryonet.org <http://www.cryonet.org>
>

I'll try to get on this today.  Didn't realize those guys were here in FL.

>
>I would encourage you to seriously consider getting a cryonics policy regardless 
>of your age.  Disease and/or accident can strike unexpectedly and suddenly make 
>you uninsurable.  Cryonics is the ultimate safety net (hopefully never needed 
>but...) should the unthinkable happen.
>
>www.alcor.org <http://www.alcor.org>
>

Yeah, I keep thinking about this.  Somehow, I just keep putting it off.  
Partly due to apprehension.  I don't know what I'm afraid of exactly.  
At 35 I could get cheap insurance.  And as they say "cryonics is the 
second worst thing that can happen to you" :)  Perhaps the idea of 
having to be "outed" at some point by my relatives.  I'm single so I 
don't have to have the "honey I'm going to be frozen" talk with wifey 
and I would never marry anyone who wasn't a THer herself anyway but I 
wonder how my uncles and parents might react.  They already think I'm 
pretty weird though, maybe this would just be filed as another "Greg 
thing". Hehehe :)