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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:52:22 EDT
Subject: calm

Jappie Hoekstra wrote about possible uncertainties in the future of cryonics 
organizations, as others have recently done. Interest and concern are good, 
and attention to detail is important, but we also need perspective.

Cryonics Institute and Alcor and the American Cryonics Society and Trans Time 
in my opinion are not threatened, although the last two are not in growth 
phase. 

CI and Alcor have enough reliable and sensible people to avoid major errors 
and recover from minor ones, and to adjust to future conditions. They are 
dynamic,  growing, and improving, although improvement is not monotone.

As always, one must figure risk/reward ratios, costs and benefits, including 
the emotional or psychological costs and benefits, which will be perceived to 
vary widely. A growing number think the cost of cryonics is tiny compared to 
the potential reward.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org


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