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    #32162: Logical but not psychological to say no self-sacrifice in cry... [Snewellinstitute]

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Message #32162
From: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:43:03 EST
Subject: Logical but not psychological to say no self-sacrifice in cry...

Gentlemen:
Just because someone has looked at the situation and decided to accept the  
radical option to utilize cryonics in order to continue in some way to give 
an  essay on existence, does not prove only the single and one dimensional  
motivation of selfish need as if to "cheat death". 
If we look at the current research in String Theory in physics of the  
cosmogenesis of the universe it is very unclear what the reality is about trying 
 to "cheat death" or many other things in that general direction as 
scientists  traditionally try to speak as realists.  Because "Reality" has recently 
got  a lot bigger thanks to such new toys as the Hubble Telescope. 
There are billions of Buddhists on this planet and one common theory in  
that culture is that we can and do have lives again after previous lives.   In 
that philosophy and culture the idea is that it is a duty to all life to  
affirm that if it is the correct intention to fulfill truth then you will and 
 should live again to do what you should be doing as you are connected to 
all the  rest of life in the universe.
In the more complete world wide well-rounded philosophy of an intention to  
be a modern person who is using an approach to Psychology referenced 
philosophy  that is specifically not ethnocentric, I would strongly urge you to 
not assume  that you know why someone wants cryonics.  
Can we just agree that science makes for change in medicine which leads to  
new possibilities and leave it at that?  Really, my colleagues, let us not  
generalize as if there is some realistic assessment that proves all persons 
 striving to continue an essay on existence well into the future are doing 
so  only out of selfish ego.
There is no one kind of person who would use cryonics any more than there  
is one kind of personality that would accept a heart transplant.  Life is  
too complicated to be boxed into such stereo-types and we humans are much to  
difficult to explain so simply.
Thank you,
Steven Wayne Newell, Ph.D.
 


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