X-Message-Number: 18429 From: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 02:14:42 EST Subject: Ettinger and Halperin and Freeman and others.... I would just like to comment about the incredible change on this forum recently... that the two major organizations are now discussion a Cryonics summit, and also, even more significantly, the James Swayze fund that Robert Ettinger started with a large donation... and MIke Perry and the Venturists are helping to organize and make donations more beneficial to the donors. I was always afraid that the future might be made up of solipsistic narcissistic intellects, but again the "father of Cryonics" has made perhaps the second most important contribution to the movement. His charity, and that of the others that are following his example, will only strengthen the cryonics movement, and also ensure that people its good to have around will be able to make it to the future, and regain an equal footing with everyone through advanced medicine and technology. Who knows what contributions James Swayze or someone like him might someday make? The example that Robert Ettinger has set will change the face of the future. First, he definitively defines the possibility of defeating death, and then he defines a moral course for the future. Not bad for one guy. I know that there must be enough funding in place to sustain a suspendee, and that's why the donations to help those less fortunate are so important. But, its also equally true that no one will get to the future alone. We all have to help each other, in myriad ways, or no one will make it. best, Mike Donahue Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18429