Elizabeth Kubler Ross just died in Scottsdale of all places. I wonder how close she was to the lab. She became famous for her book On Death And Dying. She outlined five stages of grief a dying person goes through:
1. Denial (This isn't happening to me)
2. Anger (How dare God do this to me?)
3. Bargaining (Just let me live to see my son graduate)
4. Depression (I can't bear to face going through this and putting my family through it)
5. Acceptance (I'm ready, I don't want to struggle anymore).
She forgot to add the cryonicist's stages which would go something like this for me:
1. Discovery of death (What?! That stinks.)
2. Examination of the problem. (Surely we can do something about this).
3. Signing up for cryonics. (At least I won't disintegrate so maybe I'll be reanimated if something happens to me)
4. Living with the threat of dying forever among people who accept it. (What a bunch of boneheads! -- my current stage)
5. Deanimating. (Call Alcor! Quick! Get me some ice! I should have kept my ice cube tray full, damn it.)
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