Eliezer—don’t know how many people reading this had the same response I did, but you tore my heart out.
As Nick Bostrom Ph.D. Director of the Oxford Future of Humanity institute, Co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association said about my book “21st Century Kids” “Childhood should be fun and so should the future. Read this to your children, and next you know they’ll demand a cryonics contract for Christmas.”
You know, I do what I can to educate others to the fact that cryonics is possible, and thus there is the common sense obligation to try. For me it is a noble endeavor that humans are attempting, I’m proud to help that effort. If you do a search on “teaching kids cryonics” you’ll get: http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/07/04/teaching-children-about-cryonics/ from a few years ago. I still do classes when I can, I’ve been talking to my children’s friends and parents here in the UK after moving from Austin this past summer. The reception I get over here from parents and kids is generally the same as what I heard in the States—people express interest, but never really go through the effort of signing up.
Thank you for writing about the Teens & Twenties conference Eliezer, I sincerely look forward to further analysis from you. I’ll be attending with my teens in the future, my 13 year old daughter actually had wanted to go this year but we were not able to work it in. She’ll be more mature, and my son will be a teen by the time the next event occurs. It is great to have the heroes who have devoted their lives to cryoncis, meet the “normal folk” who sign up—and for the kids to make friends with other cryonicists.
I’m sorry about your brother Eliezier, your writing tore my heart out. I agree that parents should sign their kids up, my own were raised with it and plan on “talking their spouse” into doing it (that will be interesting ;-) ). I’ve seen other older cryonicists who have raised their kids with cryonics, and the kids kept up the arrangements. I’ve also seen it go the other way. We need more books written for kids :-)
Eliezer—don’t know how many people reading this had the same response I did, but you tore my heart out.
As Nick Bostrom Ph.D. Director of the Oxford Future of Humanity institute, Co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association said about my book “21st Century Kids” “Childhood should be fun and so should the future. Read this to your children, and next you know they’ll demand a cryonics contract for Christmas.”
You know, I do what I can to educate others to the fact that cryonics is possible, and thus there is the common sense obligation to try. For me it is a noble endeavor that humans are attempting, I’m proud to help that effort. If you do a search on “teaching kids cryonics” you’ll get: http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/07/04/teaching-children-about-cryonics/ from a few years ago. I still do classes when I can, I’ve been talking to my children’s friends and parents here in the UK after moving from Austin this past summer. The reception I get over here from parents and kids is generally the same as what I heard in the States—people express interest, but never really go through the effort of signing up.
I will be writing more, in the mean time I love hearing from fans of http://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Kids-Shannon-Vyff/dp/1886057001 It was a thrill to get pictures and feedback from kids who got the book this Christmas and loved it!
Thank you for writing about the Teens & Twenties conference Eliezer, I sincerely look forward to further analysis from you. I’ll be attending with my teens in the future, my 13 year old daughter actually had wanted to go this year but we were not able to work it in. She’ll be more mature, and my son will be a teen by the time the next event occurs. It is great to have the heroes who have devoted their lives to cryoncis, meet the “normal folk” who sign up—and for the kids to make friends with other cryonicists.
I’m sorry about your brother Eliezier, your writing tore my heart out. I agree that parents should sign their kids up, my own were raised with it and plan on “talking their spouse” into doing it (that will be interesting ;-) ). I’ve seen other older cryonicists who have raised their kids with cryonics, and the kids kept up the arrangements. I’ve also seen it go the other way. We need more books written for kids :-)
Thanks for all you do.