X-Message-Number: 15286 Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:02:32 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Again, delivery of service. I have a few more comments to make regarding Charles Platt's statements in #15259: >The delivery of service remains a significant challenge, regardless of >advances in vitrification capabilities. This is the main reason why I have >not joined any of the currently active cryonics organizations myself. The delivery of service problem could be helped substantially by the existence of a cryonics community or facility where cryonicists could deanimate under reasonable circumstances and have the necessary procedures started as soon as possible. All too often cryonicists go down under bad circumstances--surrounded by non-cryonicists, thousands of miles from their cryonics organization's headquarters, with standby help either absent or iffy, with long delays before washout, cryoprotective perfusion and/or cooldown can begin, and so on. Work is underway right now to remedy this situation though it will probably take years to accomplish anything substantial. But people who are concerned, as everybody ought to be, should be fierce partisans of the idea of the cryonics community (or a viable alternative, if any--see below). We need to be in touch. Think about it, and don't hesitate to contact me and others, whose names and email addresses I can supply, who are already involved. Another idea, as a possible alternative for those who don't want to make a move, would be a chartered jet service that they could pay for as part of their suspension arrangements. The purpose would be to fly them as quickly as possible to where they would get suspended, when the need arose. This would, of course, require the assent and cooperation of their cryonics organization, but it ought to be possible to arrange it. I'd like to hear from people in a position to comment on this. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15286