X-Message-Number: 10586
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:15:50 -0800
From: Jim Yount - Chief Operating Officer <>
Subject: The First Cryonicist

We don't know who "The First Immortal" may be.  There is no doubt who "The
First Cryonicist" was.

Once upon a time there were no cryonicists.  Then a man named Robert
Ettinger became the first one.  He invited others to join him when he wrote
a book called "The Prospect of Immortality."

In the daily activity of discussions on cryonics we sometimes lose site of
the fact that the cryonics movement has a founder, and that he is still
with us.

We don't really have any cryonics holidays.  Alcor has celebrated "Bedford
Day" in honor of the first human suspended.  Bedford Day is appropriate,
but there is little doubt that a future cryonics holiday will be Robert
Ettinger's birthday.  Fortunately Robert survived his recent heart attack
and can celebrate his own birthday along with us.  Someday it will be only
other cryonicists who toast his future prospects.  Still, we are the only
movement, I know of, where our founder may return (after a brief cold
hiatus) to celebrate "Founder's Day" along with us!

By the way, Robert, I don't actually know the day of your birth.  Let us
know, so we can pencil it in on the calendar, and have time to chill down
the champagne!

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