X-Message-Number: 13287 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:41:57 -0500 From: gary tripp <> Subject: James Swayze Surgery postponed Charles Platt writes: > >Even in their sunny view of the future, though, there is (or should >be) some cause for concern. Even if you assume that a "half-way decent >suspension" can be nothing more than a bucket of liquid nitrogen, someone >has to provide the bucket, and someone has to make sure that it will be >topped off for the next few decades. In other words, no matter how sunny >your view of the world is, cryonics depends on infrastructure, and >infrastructure must be maintained. Since ALL cryonics organizations depend >on donations of money, time, and labor, it is grossly misleading to spread >the meme that the future is in some sense guaranteed, and all you have to >do is pay your insurance and membership dues. > We need more than a bucket of LN; we need research. I feel that we need something like the Prometheous project here! Brook Norton writes: > >Gary Tripp, in msg 13280, says that James Swayze will be undergoing a risky >operation on Friday. Thanks Gary for organizing the donation bookkeeping. >I will increase my pledge from $1,000 to $1,500 until the risk of surgery is >passed. From what I've read from James, he is a classic cryonicist who >appreciates what we are all trying to do, but being a quadriplegic, he >simply has no way to raise the roughly $30K that will be required in the >short term for suspension. I wish a fund already existed for such cases, >but it doesn't. I'm not sure what else to do except request that other >cryonicists who are able and of like mind to make a pledge. > Thank you Brook James' surgery has been postponed - I'll keep you posted. gary Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13287