X-Message-Number: 18289 From: Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:19:01 EST Subject: Swayze, Freeman, Christensen >Message #18288 >From: "Toby Christensen" >Hello everyone. It is my belief that cryonics presents an opportunity for disabled >people like myself to be helped via future medical technologies and that this is an >area that needs more focus. Indeed--but it's a difficult practical and psychological problem. From my point of view, we are all almost equally deprived, relative to what we can become and experience. But still many will feel a greater boon for those obviously deprived relative to "normal" life. We do probably have "handicapped" people represented somewhat more than proportionately in cryonics, and would have still more if they could afford it. (We're working on that.) I know of at least two blind men, both Ph.D.s, with cryonics arrangements. Then there's James Swayze, whom most of you know through these pages. At this point let me thank Dr. Tim Freeman for his recent and very generous donation to CI's James Swayze Fund. It is still well short of the goal, so I hope some of you will consider adding to it, and soon--I don't want to be alarmist, but James' health is even more precarious than previously. You can use a credit card via www.paypal.com, using our email address There are lots of special groups we would like to reach, but don't know how to do it effectively. Cancer patients, stroke victims, dying infants, hospice patients, blind and otherwise handicapped, several others. But we can't look like ambulance chasers, and I don't know of any practical approach to focus on any of these. Perhaps the best we can do is hope for trickle-down as the general awareness improves. Robert Ettinger Cryonics Institute Immortalist Society www.cryonics.org Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18289