[extropy-chat] NYT on cryonics

[Damien Broderick]

A quite balanced report (in the *business* not the medical or lifestyle 
section):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/business/yourmoney/13freeze.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=

Inevitably, a moment of conventional absurdity creeps in:

< Most people who join Alcor were previously convinced of cryonics' promise 
and are not frightened by the absence of a guarantee of awakening in the 
distant future or by the grisliness of removing their heads, Mr. Waynick 
said. >

No comparison is drawn with the default `grisliness' of burning their heads 
instead in a crematorium, or of placing them underground to decay into 
slime and be eaten by worms. No no no, we don't want to think about that.

But the tone of the essay is surprisingly free of jocosity and sneers.

Damien Broderick