X-Message-Number: 22700 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: funeral directors Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:06:44 +0100 One other way to find co-operative funeral directors may be to try and get a series of articles about cryonics in a funeral magazine circulating in your country or state. Maybe I was very lucky with the UK's Funeral Service Journal. But what happened was, that I took out a paid advertisement to sell copies of The Prospect of Immortality, and the editor invited me to write a cryonics column. It seems that editors of many trade magazines may be short of editorial copy and would be willing to seek articles on offbeat topics. Eventually the magazine changed hands and the new people didn't want any more, but by then cryonics had a reasonable professional standing in the UK. Now the country has more cryonicists than any other except the USA. [as far as I know -- maybe someone else knows differently.] Most of these articles can be found on http://www.longevity-report.com/funerals.htm I think the editor had hoped that the articles would whip up a bit of controversy amongst the otherwise apathetic readership. But they all seemed to take it in their stride and indeed many sent for free booklets on cryonics I was offering, some wanting 20 copies or more. I had 200 professionally printed, and they all went over a period of a few years. I suspect that I was just very, very lucky happening to be in the right place at the right time. But then if I hadn't tried, then I would never have known that the opportunity existed. I also tried the same trick with other relevant professions, but never got away with it a second time. But if more people try, then maybe someone else will get a similar run of luck. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22700