X-Message-Number: 13492 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:31:04 -0500 From: david pizer <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #13475 - #13483 Reply to several persons From: Dave pizer Thanks for all the direct and public response. During the next 12 months we welcome as much input as possible. Venturist co-founder, Mike Perry, and I and the Venturist Board want to learn as much as possible about what the cryonics community wants before we start construction. We want to create a facility that *you* will want to visit often and you will *want* to retire to someday. A place that you can visit or live in where you can help promote your and our common views to the rest of the world through many different ways. We want to create a facility that will be successful in promoting the cryonics/immortality philosophy to the rest of the world. We *need* your ideas. >Message #13475 >From: "john grigg" <> >Subject: A cryonics enclave is on the horizon! >Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 03:14:37 PDT > >David Pizer wrote: >This is the parcel that I would like to create a cryonics community that I have seen >a need for. snip >David, I am excited! snip >I think this is what cryonics has been looking for. A cryonicist enclave >like this could really capture the positive interest of the public and mass >media and help to focus our energies in a way that would really benefit >each other. This is what we are shooting for, and it is very exciting! > I just hope it is designed to be affordable for all income >levels. One size does not fit all - we will have to have several sizes and levels of affordability. Having been in cryonics for so long, I have come to realize that we have people from the poverty level to many multi-millionares. We want to creat a facility where people from all financial levels can come and be comfortable - physically and financially. The commonality here is the philosophy not one's financial status. But we realize that wealthy people are going to want certain things that they might be used to and other people are going to be on fixed income and things need to be affordable. We should have very comfortable housing for modest costs. For those on really short incomes, we can provide employment in the resort end of the facility. Keep in mind that this is two facilities in one - a resort for the general public that should generate very good income and a cryonics community where people can live and work together promoting cryonics and the philosophy of biological immortality. > A powerful thrill shot through me as I read your post and I hope to >feel even greater excitement as I read in the future about how construction >is going on to make the dream a reality. Good luck with it and I hope you >get the support you deserve. I don't think finances will be the issue - the first big problem is getting zoning and use approved, I am working on that now. The land is paid for and I soon hope to have enough money (within 12 months) to build the first stage of the lodge and 10 cabins. After that we will enlarge (bigger lodge + more cabins) as business grows. When the resort gets a little bigger, we will use the excess profit to build the cryonics community: houses and apartments, meeting buildings, spa/exercise room, a place to publish our magazine and a computer workroom and offices for volunteers to "spread the word." >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Message #13476 >From: >Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:02:39 EDT >Subject: Re: CryoNet #13463, cryonics community. >I have s similar idea for a lot of time now. I think the real problem is one > of "critical mass": There are too few candidate to organize something. Yes. That is why I had to couple the cryonics community with some other income-generating entity. The idea of a resort and cryonics community fit together well. A place to vist for vacation and a place to retire to later - all in one. >On the other side, I see many cryonicist interested in other advanced >technical areas, such astronomy, space and rocket, electronics and computing >to name some of them. Why not then create some techno-center where >interested amateurs would find a technical support for their hobby? I hope we can eventually have things like this. We want to include as many things as possible so that like-minded cryonicists/immortalists will *want* to move here and live here forever (well for a long time). The things you mention are the things cryonicists are interested in, and just by the fact that a lot of us are living in the same community these things are bound to take hold as hobbies and more. >They could come here for their hollidays and then choose to retire on that >site. This is exactally why the resort for the public and the cryonics community go so good together. During their life time cryonicists can come to the resort for vacations and get familiar with the facility. When they get older and want to retire they will feel comfortable with moving here because they have visited in many times. Older cryonicists need a common place to retire to. They are most at risk for sudden death and it will greatly increase their odds of getting a better suspension if they live in a place that checks on them every morning (good for younger people too) and makes sure they are ok, or if they need help. When I was at Alcor I found that some of our members (when they became terminal) wanted to move closer to Alcor so they could get a better suspension but they were not comfortable with leaving their homes to go to a place they were not familiar with. So most of them stayed at their homes far from Alcor, and most of them did not get as good of suspensions if they had moved close. I want to see this changed. We must create a facility where terminal people will not be uncomfortable to move to if we want to help them. >It would be psychologically more interesting than a site where "you wait for >death". One of the most dreadful things to imagine is being old and very sick. Your spouse is already dead. The neighbors don't give a hoot about you and you are at risk for sudden death. This dreadful situation can be helped some by retiring to a cryonics-community where your neighbors are cryonicists/immortalists and care about you and your philosophy - they will be there to help you get good care, just as you might help someone else if you are able to. A person in this situation needs like-minded friends to talk to in these eventual hard times. On of the most horrible things that I have seen in the last 2 decades is where several long-term cryonicists ended up alone, old and sick - and in this vunerable condition they got talked out of being suspended. I want to see this end. >>Message #13463 >>Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 18:50:07 -0700 >>From: Peter Christiansen <> >>Subject: RE: Dave Pizer's Cryonics Supportive Community >>The principal objection to Dave Pizer's proposal for the establishment >>of a Cryonics Suportive Community seems to be that many people do not >>want to give their home for a small apartment. This seems >>understandable. >What about a cryonics supportive manufactured (formerly mobile) home >community which would rent space to cryonicists on which they could site >their own manfuactured homes. I think that there was a wrongful-conception. This community will provide homes just as large (or smaller if desired), on lots as large as the cryoncists used to live in. There are many retirement communities in Arizona for us to use for models. Many of them have large, free-standing homes on large lots. Some have small homes or apartment style living. There is no reason to thing that the facility will only have small apartments. For those on very limited income there will be small apartments but there also can be larger homes if there are people willing to pay for them. For the very wealthy, they may want to buy an estate within a few miles of the facility. That way they can have more privacy and still participate in the events that are going on at the facility. Although this parcel of land is surrounded by a 2 to 5 mile wide belt of public land (will probably be a park) there is other private land nearby. Thanks for the input Dave Pizer Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13492