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Subject: Reply to Joe Waynick
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:23:10 US/Eastern

    Thank you for your comments, Joe.

    I said in my previous posting that I was speaking for
myself. Although I am President of the Cryonics Institute
I am not a dictator. In private e-mail all of the CI Directors
& Advisors who have commented on the matter say that
they like the comparisons page -- or the idea of a 
comparisons page. So now you have heard the voice of 
CI. There will be a comparisons page on the CI website
despite the fact that neither you nor I like the idea. 

   Robert Ettinger has offered to rewrite and update the 
comparisons page. When this new version is posted on
the CI website I will take you up on your offer to discuss 
it with you on the telephone. If you have strong objections
to certain specific passages I will pass those on and see
if accommodations can be made. 

    I am hoping that this will be my last CryoNet posting on
this subject -- for a long time, at least. So I want again to 
emphasize my feelings-of and desire-for goodwill with Alcor
Members and staff. I fear that on some level Robert Ettinger
will never stop believing that Alcor is still being run by Mike
Darwin. And Bob avoids traveling. By contrast I have attended
every major cryonics conference in the last fifteen years and 
have traveled to Europe, Australia, New Zealand and throughout
North America meeting cryonicists of every cryonics organization.
For the most part I have warm & friendly feelings for the Alcor
Members I know. So it distresses me to see Bob treating 
Alcor as if it were the Evil Empire. 

                    -- Ben
Best

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