X-Message-Number: 18348 From: Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:38:08 EST Subject: Important Cryonics announcement from Bill Falloon --part1_22.21ecbdbf.2971eaa0_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en Hello, Fellow Cryoneters, Rudi Hoffman in Daytona, with a very exciting forwarding from Bill Falloon as promised. I have copied this in it's entirety from Bill, so the formatting may be a bit weird in this posting. Here is data. Cryonics MeetingMeeting Date: Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 2:00 pmPlace: Life Extension Building1100 West Commercial Blvd-Ft. Lauderdale(Just West of I-95. Call 1-800-544-4440 if you need directions)You are invited to an important meeting that will include members from ALL cryonics organizations. The purpose of this meeting is to gather our collective resources in order to make advanced cryo-preservation technology available within the next several months. Life Extension Foundation has just purchased from Mike Darwin, equipment worth about $850,000.00 (including two ambulances). We are now looking at potential facilities in South Florida to move some of this equipment in to. Mike Darwin has offered to spend significant time in South Florida setting up the new facility and training paramedics and other medical personnel to implement the vitrification process developed at our 21st Century Medicine lab. Here is the dilemma we now face. Since 1991, Life Extension Foundation has spent approximately five million dollars to develop technologies that would enable us to perfect the cryo-preservation process. While we have made great strides in the laboratory, no cryonics organization has the capability to fully implement the vitrification process we have developed.For those who don't know, vitrification enables cells to be preserved with very little damage. Electron microscopy slides show minimal damage to vitrified cells compared to frozen cells. Alcor has been provided with our vitrification technology, but they are not able to deliver this technology to the cryonics patient in an optimal manner. Even if Alcor reaches the needed level of technical competence, those residing in Florida may be too far away from Alcor-Arizona to fully benefit from it. Ideally, a training and vitrification facility should be established in Florida so that those who deanimate here will have a reasonable opportunity to be properly vitrified. It is imperative that we upgrade our ability to deliver emergency care so that cryonics patients can be properly prepared for vitrification procedures, whether they are performed in Florida or elsewhere. Life Extension Foundation has already identified and retained paramedics willing to be trained for these procedures. A preliminary agreement has been reached with Mike Darwin. Dave Shumaker, a long-time cryonicist as well as retired businessman has agreed to be the CEO of the company that will provide these services.This meeting has been scheduled because a growing number of Florida cryonicists are aware that the quality of the cryo-preservation procedure can be greatly enhanced if coordinated efforts are made to harness the talents and resources of the many cryonicists residing in this State. We now need to identify cryonicists who would be willing to volunteer their time to assist Mike Darwin in setting up this facility and participate in training with the paramedics. We also need cryonicists willing to make donations or investments to help fund the facility's operating expenses. The Life Extension Foundation has already committed substantial dollars towards this project.Mike Darwin is expected to participate at this meeting and there should be new cryonicists present. Saul Kent will update us on ongoing research at the California research facilities we own. Jerry Lemler, President of Alcor will be on hand, along with Alcor Director Michael Riskin. Jim Yount, CEO of the American Cryonics Society (ACS) and Edgar Swank, President of ACS will also attend. It is imperative that cryonicists attend this extremely important meeting. Over the past twenty years, a number of attempts have been made to pre-arrange emergency suspension services for Florida members, but the reality is that we are woefully unprepared to handle a state-of-the-art cryo-preservation at this time.Now that we have access to medical professionals and advanced vitrification technology, it is time that we set up the mechanism to deliver this service. Our objective is to set new standards in the clinical implementation of cryo-preservation. This may motivate other cryonics organizations (including Alcor) to contract with us to deliver this enhanced service worldwide. If this were to be the case, providing the most advanced delivery of human vitrification services could turn into a profit-making business. The most important reason for this meeting, however, is to lay the groundwork to ensure that we as individuals have the best opportunity to be vitrified under optimal conditions. We will be mailing directions to the Life Extension building where the meeting will be held. Call Dayna Dye at 954-766-8433 if you have any questions.The meeting should last between 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm. To make sure we have allocated enough space in the Life Extension building to house this meeting, please notify Dayna Dye if you are going to attend. Call her at 954-766-8433 or Email her at: For those who want to continue the conversation, a buffet dinner will be held at Saul Kent s new residence located at the L-Hermitage condominium on Ft. Lauderdale Beach at 6:00 pm. Directions are to take Commercial Blvd East to A1A and then turn South to Oakland Park Blvd. Make a left hand turn at Oakland Park Blvd and A1A and then another left into L Hermitage. Saul is in building one, apartment 1501. His phone number is 566-2717. If you are going to attend the buffet dinner, please notify Dayna Dye at 954-766-8433 or Email her at <A HREF="mailto:"> </A> For longer life, Original said Bill Falloon. Forwarded by... (and yes, I will be at the meeting, as well as the Orlando meeting on Feb. 10.) Rudi Hoffman Member Financial Planner's Association, Certified Planner Member ALCOR Life Extension Foundation Member Libertarian Party Member National Rifle Association Member Extropy Foundation Board Member Port Orange Chamber of Commerce Board Member Daytona Salvation Army --part1_22.21ecbdbf.2971eaa0_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18348