X-Message-Number: 18945 From: Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:55:57 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #18942 - #18944 I strongly agree with Mike Darwin's assessment of 'Six Feet Under.' and suggest it is worth the price of an HBO subscription. You get 'Soprano's in for the bargain, an absorbing show but of less relevance to us cryonauts. I would suggest that the importance of 'Six Feet Under' for us is the demystification of death, dead bodies, and the funeral business in general. One of the many reasons we have so much trouble with recruitment is that we are seen as being in the 'death' business, a mysterious world where only creeps choose to go voluntarily. [Notice, for example, how GWB and friends have relabeled inheritance taxes as 'the death tax' to make it more horrifying and thus an obvious bad thing.] Now that I have your attention, I am wondering why the great debates we were having about marketing and how to grow our numbers have been absent in recent weeks? I strongly believe that the big issue for us is still numbers, numbers in suspension, numbers paying in, numbers comitted, numbers favorably interested. Have we run out of ideas? Have we run out of energy? Increasing the odds, another current topic, is also about numbers. Whatever the odds are at any given time, they get better with more people involved, more people willing to support research and development, more people supporting expanded and improved facilities in more places, and so on. Let's have some more buzz on that. Ron Havelock Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18945