[extropy-chat] New to the list

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jun 13, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Gregory Propf wrote:
> 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 :)
>

Isn't it amusing (well, not really) that we (somewhat) evolved primates 
care more for what other primates may think of us than we care for what 
we ourselves reason is the right thing to do?   Don't let social 
[dis]approval rob you.

-s