X-Message-Number: 1210 Date: 20 Sep 92 04:02:24 EDT From: STEPHEN BRIDGE <> Subject: CRYONICS - Funding Suspensions In reply to suggestions from Ralph Merkle, Steve Harris, Thomas Donaldson, and others: I really like the creative suggestions I am seeing here. It is possible that some of them will turn out to be impractical or illegal for a non-profit corporation to undertake; but maybe not. Besides our own thoughts, we need a non-profit specialist to look at the ideas that seem most practical. As a new Director for Alcor, I can already see that there are more problems and more ideas for solutions than we can tackle at once. How to pay for transport and for last-minute members certainly ranks in the top five of priority problems in both importance and, unfortunately, in complexity. I suspect that the Board will not be able to formally begin dealing with this particular problem for a few meetings yet. However, PLEASE do not let us forget about this problem. Let's keep hammering away at it to eliminate the least practical solutions first. I will be saving this thread for future examination and I hope you will constantly remind us of its importance. Thanks especially to Steve Harris for his perspective on this problem. I think he may be on the right track. I would appreciate it if someone out there would run through various common scenarios of membership using this plan and see how it might work for each type of member. Let's see if the numbers appear to add up with the kind of balance that Steve projects. Steve Bridge Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1210