Dear Future Centenarian,
Last week, I mentioned the longevity
workshop I attended in Las
Vegas. This week, I’m going to illustrate how hanging out
with the participants energized me, and I’m going to talk a little about the
workshop itself.
First, let me tell you why it was
such a positive event for me.
We had 16 attendees, plus me. Every
one of them, all 16, shared a positive upbeat outlook on life.
Can you think of someone who
brightens up your day by just walking into the room? Don’t you have someone in
your life who you just love hanging around, someone who lifts your spirits by
their mere presence? How about someone who shares your values, aspirations and
plans?
OK, now roll those people into one…
then multiply that person by 16. That’s who I spent the weekend with… 16
energizers.
In fact, it gets better. Half the
attendees were geniuses and leaders in their respective fields. I’m totally in
awe of some of them. They’re so brilliant, they totally humble me.
Now if that’s not enough, the
workshop topic was something I am passionate about – life
insurance!
What? Life insurance? I know, I
know, you’re probably thinking I’ve gone off the deep end, or I’m some sort of
closet life insurance salesman. Nothing could be further from the truth. I did
in fact sell life insurance in a previous life, but that was traditional life
insurance… and I hated it.
No, this workshop was about the only
“pure” form of life insurance. Not the kind you can only benefit from by dying
(which is actually “death insurance”), but the kind that could keep you from
dying in the first place… Cryonics! More specifically, our topic was the
strategy to preserve your assets if you experience clinical death, get
cryonically preserved and get resuscitated. In other words, maybe you can “take it with you” after
all.
If you’re
not familiar with cryonics, research has shown that dying is a gradual process
which starts after, not when, our hearts or brain waves stop. Our cells die
gradually, over time. Cryonics is the science that halts this dying process with
low-temperature technologies, stemming from the field of
cryobiology.
If the
cryonics rescue team reaches patients in time after legal death, they may be
able to place them into suspended animation until such time as cures for what
“killed” them are developed, and when age-reversal technologies are mature. At
that time, they plan on fixing you and waking you up.
A long-shot?
Maybe. Whacky? If you think so, consider this:
Cryonics
depends largely on two technologies. One is cryobiology, a well-proven field
that deals with ultra-low temperatures. In this case, that means storing human
tissue at liquid nitrogen temperatures for future therapies. This has been
routinely done for many years.
The other is
neurobiology, again, a totally legitimate and non-controversial
field.
So it
follows that it is just as legitimate to store and recover the brain (where your
memory resides) as it is to store and recover any other tissue. So cryonics
should work.
Then we add
another emerging, and soon to be maturing tool… regenerative medicine. We’re
already growing replacement organs, and soon, they promise to be as good, or
even better than the originals. You have read a lot about this in previous
issues of this newsletter. Again, a well-accepted
field.
As these
technologies are fine-tuned, they may be more than enough for resuscitating
patients. But there’s more.
Another
technology that may be enormously helpful for even more perfect rescue from
suspension is nanotechnology. There’s already more work in this field than I can
ever hope to keep up with. Full-blown nanomedicine may be developed in as little
as 19 years.
So you might
look at cryonics as the purest form of life insurance. Insurance is something
you hope you never need but are glad you have when you do need it… when it is no
longer for sale.
David A.
Kekich
Maximum Life
Foundation
714-641-0700/Fax
714-464-4135
www.MaxLife.org
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