X-Message-Number: 18386
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #18380 - #18384
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:34:27 -0000

> Message #18380
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 06:27:14 -0500
> From: Thomas Donaldson <>
> Subject: CryoNet #18373 - #18379
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I was both surprized and gratified by Lemler's successful invitation
> to Bob Ettinger and Ed Swank. I await the result with interest ---
> though I hope it succeeds, the different societies ARE different
> and we might see one more flop (which I would hardly hold against
> Lemler).
>

I wouldn't have thought that Robert Ettinger or Edward Swank would want it
to fail either. It is in everyone's interest for the cryonics organisations
to co-exist. It is not the same as with say car manufacturers when the
customers world wide are in the millions - cryonics is a very small
operation in terms of the number of paying people involved. Co existence and
co-operation could be the difference between success and failure of the
whole movement.

It is one thing to say "our way is the best and the finest" and quite
another to add to this that anyone else is no good, to put it politely, or
to try and suggest that there *is* no competition. It is not necessary for
Ford to advise customers that they can also but a similar model from General
Motors, because anyone buying a car knows that anyway. But anyone coming
across cryonics for the first time is going to know very little about what
is available. Which is why organisations such as the Venturists (and CI
itself) try and get potential members to educate themselves about all the
options and make up their own minds.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:      http://www.deRivaz.com
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report, an autobio and various other projects:
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http://www.porthtowan.com

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