X-Message-Number: 18344 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 07:38:37 -0800 From: James Bryan Swayze <> Subject: Re: Venturist Assistance to Swayze References: <> Dear Venturists, Thank you all so very much for your decision to create the Cryonics Assistance Fund. It really took me by surprise and I am so very delighted by it. Depending on my Cryonics evangelizing success I may have some nominees, friends I dearly love, that would qualify as to need. Regardless though of whether people I know could benefit I am so grateful on behalf of my differently abled peers. It's also a great load off my chest as I mentioned on Cryonet. It's easier for me to accept the help I've received knowing that perhaps my involvement had a tiny bit to do with helping others and which my reluctance a few times. Ironically I have been meaning to contact the Venturists about joining if it were possible. I've also kept in the back of my mind, on a back burner so to speak, Dave Pizer's offer to me to contact him should I have some idea how he could help me. However, my idea involves helping him. I have some meager skills in Computer Aided Drafting I'd be willing to dust off and use to help with the development of Ventureville. I've considered time and again becoming an Accessibility Consultant both for ADA compliance and to use my natural design skills to help companies design modifications to existing structures or plan accessibility into new construction. I've designed many systems for my own use and since I am so large in my wheelchair due mostly to my 6'5" height and my splayed legs due to my bone disease if something is designed for my access it's likely it will accommodate most other wheelchair and scooter users. I never got very far with it because I am not accredited as a designer or architect or engineer and am self taught in CAD, and finally I have a great problem with traveling and to make the big bucks I'd surely need to travel as the market would be slim just locally. Finally, I was unsure what I could earn doing that and if it was too little I'd only thoroughly mess up my medical coverage and income though to call my present income meager is an understatement. However, nothing is stopping me volunteering my talents and this I've been pondering a small while. I have volunteered the use of my talents where possible to CI already and I extend the invitation to the Venturists and Ventureville and Alcor is welcome as well. Please let me know if this is of interest to you. Please also let me know what is required to be a Venturist member. I am concerned about avoiding autopsy. Are future to be CI members welcome? ;) Thanks again. James Mike Perry wrote: > To help James Swayze, and more generally other, similar cases that might > come up, the Society for Venturism has now established a Cryonics > Assistance Fund. Until further notice, contributions to this fund will be > remitted in their entirety to Cryonics Institute's James Swayze Fund. The > Venturist organization is tax-exempt, with 501(c)3 status, thus > contributions should be tax deductible. (It is my understanding that direct > contributions to CI's Fund are not tax deductible.) If you wish to > contribute, you should send a check payable to "Society for Venturism" and > mark it "Cryonics Assistance Fund" or "James Swayze Fund." Send it to me, > Mike Perry, 7895 E. Acoma Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85260-6916. I will forward > the funds immediately to CI and, unless directed otherwise, include an > acknowledgement of the contributor. I hope this will increase the > assistance to James and others in the future with similar needs. Anyone > feel free to forward this message as seems appropriate. > > Sincerely, > Mike Perry > Secretary, Society for Venturism > > The Society for Venturism, Inc. is registered with the IRS under Employer > ID Number 74-2516644. -- My website: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze A collection of photos of me and some of my artwork: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292752723&code=2039335&mode=invite A radio interview on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality": http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3728 A favorite quote: From the point of ignition To the final drive The point of the journey is not to arrive --Prime Mover by RUSH from Hold Your Fire available here: http://cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1804486765/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album.html/artistid=RUSH/itemid=408870 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18344