> From: "http://www.loe.org/~comments" <http://www.loe.org/~comments> > Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:48:41 -0500 > > Dear Mr., > > We appreciate your comments regarding our recent story, "Deep Survival," and > we may want to include them in a listener letters segment of an upcoming > show. May we have permission to read an excerpt of your letter? Yes. > If so, > please tell us on what radio station you listen to Living on Earth? KQED FM in San Francisco. > Thanks for listening, > > Christopher Bolick > > Living on Earth > 20 Holland Street, Suite 408 > Somerville, MA 02144 > (617) 629-3638 > http://www.loe.org/~cbolick > > > From: "robert b" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> > > Date: 21 Nov 2004 00:40:36 -0000 > > To: http://www.loe.org/~comments > > Subject: Deep Survival > > > > Laurence Gonzales makes the big assumption that people have a drive to live, > > what could be called the Darwin assumption. Some people and other organisms > > feel that death may not be a terrible option to the possible risk. I suspect > > that most people would not be willing to subject themselves to that risk. > > And > > that's the truly Zen vision of life. -- Robert where-I-live