X-Message-Number: 22649 From: "David Pizer" <> Subject: To move or not to move - that is the question Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:42:32 -0700 To Move or Not to Move - That is the Question Christine said: "With regards to the difficulties surrounding Alcor and CI these days, one can always consider relocating cryonics services to Canada." Actually B.C. Canada already has laws that discriminate against cryonics. Some American cryonicists, Mike Darwin, have been barred from entering Canada. There is a real danger in moving any cryonics organization. The chances are the new place will be worse. Alcor and CI are having some difficulties right now, but in my experienced judgement both companies will overcome these, unless some new horrible thing is uncovered. Moving to anywhere else would be a big gamble. Successful cryonics companies don't gamble (unless they are forced to), because they are responsible for a lot of helpless people (the patients) who cannot fend for themselves. I don't think Alcor will be moving unless things get as bad for them as they did in the 90s in California. Then there was no choice - move or be ground to dust. ("Ground to dust" is my personal opinion of what would have happened if Alcor has stayed there - I am sure there are some old timers, like myself, who might disagree with my assessment.) David Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22649