X-Message-Number: 2433
From: Ralph Merkle <>
Subject: CRYONICS BioPreservation/Alcor meeting
Date: 	Thu, 7 Oct 1993 10:34:36 PDT

Charles Platt recently mentioned the meeting between Alcor
and Biopreservation.  I attended the meeting.  For various
reasons, it is inappropriate to discuss particulars.  Many
issues were raised, including the ones alluded to by Charles.
I have not been able to consider the issues in sufficient
depth to feel comfortable with a specific opinion.  I hope
to rectify this in a few weeks.

In the meantime, there is much constructive work to be done.
Different people have different ideas about exactly which activities
are most constructive, but I think it has become increasingly
apparent that ad hominem attacks and internal feuding have a
generally adverse impact on cryonics as a whole.  The formation
of cohesive subgroups that wish to work together on common
objectives seems more fruitful.

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