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Subject: CRYONICS Question to Paul Wakfer
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 00:20:07 PST

I know I should not let myself get sucked into this, but Paul Wakfer 
writes: 

>We CAN NOT get on with the common cause (and I'm not sure 
>that even the cause is totally common!) if we each have vastly 
>differing ideas as to what getting on with it means.  We have no 
>alternative but to pursue a dialogue to attempt to reach a consensus 
>and a decision concerning how Alcor should operate. 

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>    What Saul, I and others attempted to do was to demonstrate to the
>Board that the vast majority of the active clients of Alcor want
>changes.  I believe it is unquestionably clear that we have done just
>that and yet certain members of the Board are so pigheaded that they
>have not recognized and acceded to this fact.

Paul, the very lack (to my best knowledge) of *any* specific proposals 
from those who forced the management change as to how Alcor should 
operate *differently* from the current way it operates is my reason 
for considering this entire affair a pure political power struggle.  

The closest I have come to finding a specific proposal is Saul's 
insistence that the patient care money be moved out of the country.  
Given his problems, that makes sense for *Saul's* money.  But as long 
as the patients are here, and we are operating in the open, the 
officers could be forced to bring the funds back in and pay them over 
(geek or we thaw out the patients!).  

As a non-pigheaded, but thoroughly unenlightened board member, I would 
very much like to know *what* changes you have demonstrated that "vast 
majority of the active clients of Alcor" want.  If you can enunciate 
them, perhaps you would find me agreeing with you. 

Keith Henson

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