X-Message-Number: 13921 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:52:16 -0600 From: Mathew Sullivan <> Subject: Response to Dave Pizer For Dave Pizer's interest and convenience, I'll re-post the following membership figures from #13862: Year/Members/Added/% Increase 1984/33/11/33.3 1985/44/27/61.4 1986/71/14/19.7 1987/85/15/17.6 1988/100/14/14.0 1989/114/36/31.6 1990/150/50/33.3 1991/200/90/45.0 1992/290/59/20.3 1993/349/25/7.2 1994/374/-14/-3.7 1995/360/16/4.4 1996/376/25/6.6 1997/401/28/7.0 1998/429/22/5.1 1999/451/37/8.2 2000/488 Technically speaking, you can see a dramatic drop in Alcor's growth rate when you became active, followed by marginal growth rates. Now that you are no longer active, growth rates have started to go back up. Now, I am not blaming you for the dramatic drop in Alcor's growth rate. If anything, I would argue that Alcor's growth rates have been largely independent of your activities. I'll apologize for not being able to discuss this subject matter further. My primary responsibility now is to work with other staff members to upgrade our equipment to meet 21CM's protocol. P.S. In 1996, at the age of 27, my suspension arrangements with Alcor became official, and I started paying $46 per month for a $50k whole life insurance policy. As long as there are no major problems with the market, I'll only have to make payments for 15 years. That works out to be $46 x 12 months x 15 years = $8,280. Now, I did have another option; I could have made a lump sum payment of ~$3,400. Not a bad deal for a neuro suspension if you ask me:-) True, if I procrastinated and waited until the last minute, the impact would be greater. But, no worse than having a major organ replaced at the last minute without medical insurance. I think the real key here is not to procrastinate. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13921