[ExI] Extropian police officer who died on 9/11?

[hkhenson]

At 08:25 AM 11/19/2007, Natasha wrote:
>At 04:28 PM 11/18/2007, Eli wrote:
>>Natasha Vita-More wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Yes.  He was a friend.  His name was John Perry.
>>
>>Max More wrote:
>> > Right after I sent off that last email, I remembered that Dan's
>> > surname was "McIntire" or "MacIntire" (or possibly Macintyre". 
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>>Thanks, both.  (I thought I'd sent an earlier email but it's not
>>showing up in my inbox.)
>>
>>I hope it doesn't sound too horribly insensitive to say this, but if
>>anyone can think of a definite, confirmed, unamgiguous case of an
>>atheist sacrificing their life while being current in a cryo
>>arrangement, it would be the ultimate counterevidence to the "selfish
>>cryonicist" meme.

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I am reminded of a related argument from the audience at the WorldCon 
in Glasgow, (1995)

There was a woman at a panel mostly on cryonics who said people 
signed up for cryonics would not be adventurous and would make the 
world an insufferably dull place. The previous night I had been 
helping with the fireworks and was 20 feet from a 12 inch mortar that 
blew up. When I described this she admitted that perhaps her 
assessment was off base.

Considering that one of my former hobby after signing up for cryonics 
has put me in danger a number of times and once in a place where I 
had to jump out of the path of a speeding car to keep from being 
killed . . . . I suppose I am a weak example of what you are looking 
for. There are lots of people in the cryonics community who have 
taken a lot of risk dealing with AIDS patients and related risks but 
nobody has died yet.

You aren't likely to find a full scale example, though John Perry 
came close.  There are not enough people signed up and few such 
incidents per year, probably in the range of one in a million people 
per year. So with a thousand people signed up, you should expect on a 
random basis to have one such incident every thousand years.

Keith