<div>Advocates of socialized medicine who are aslo cryonicists would do well to take note of the following comments in this NYT article</div>
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<p>"The United States is not necessarily an easy place to take up the banner of letting go; we’re likely to call it “giving up,” and there is of course no purer expression of this attitude than the pursuit of cryonics." </p>
<div>"Robin’s expertise extends to the economics of health care, a domain in which enormous amounts of money are spent on experimental procedures with only a small chance of extending life."</div>
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<div>"His students rarely accept this framing. “We spend most of the semester talking about how people are obsessed with taking any small chance at living longer,” Robin says. “And then when we get to cryonics, it’s: Well, who needs to live longer? What’s the point of living anyway? Why can’t we solve global hunger?” </div>
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<div>As well as a recent Yahoo news article which basically villifies America for trying too hard to save lives, criticizing procedures that are extremely expensive and have little chance of success. </div>
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<div>Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death</div>
<div><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100628/ap_on_he_me/us_med_overtreated_final_days">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100628/ap_on_he_me/us_med_overtreated_final_days</a> </div></blockquote>
<div>- Michael F Dickey</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Jeff Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrd1415@gmail.com" target="_blank">jrd1415@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Max More <<a href="mailto:max@maxmore.com" target="_blank">max@maxmore.com</a>> wrote:
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<div>> Be sure to read the comments too. ...</div>
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<div>Great comments. All the classic objections and attitudes. some</div>
<div>thoughtfulness, good civility, and some bright spots -- #44, and one</div>
<div>of the best limericks ever, from "mick" on Ibiza,</div>
<div>#48.</div>
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<div>Here it is, saved for posterity, slip it into my dewar when I'[m gone:</div>
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<div>There was an old widow named Price</div>
<div>Who kept her dead husband on ice</div>
<div>"It's been hard since I lost him,</div>
<div>I'll never defrost him"</div>
<div>Cold comfort, but cheap at the price.</div>
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<div>Best, Jeff Davis</div>
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<div> "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."</div>
<div> Ray Charles</div>
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