X-Message-Number: 25749
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:01:57 -0800 (PST)
From: roy baty <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #25746 - #25747

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Mathew,


In MHO, the Cryonics Institute is the way to go. Not just because you will save 
a minimum of $123,000, but also because I can see and feel total dedication from
them. Their financial information is public. They are solid and haven't raised 
their rates. And best of all, you will receive an excellent suspension that will
get you where you want to go. Why not go check the facility out for yourself? 
They're pretty cool about tours if you call ahead. All around them other 
providers are whining and raising their rates and pricing themselves out of the 
reach of the common people, who need services but cant afford them, as opposed 
to people who can afford services and don't particularly need them. If you 
seriously feel that you need to have a bundle of questionable pre-meds, then by 
all means check out the other service providers. Some of them do cutting edge 
research on suspension techniques but run into the hundreds of thousands of 
dollars for a full body suspension while CI's fee is only

 28,000 for what is a superior quality suspension that I'd have done to myself 
 and will eventually. My real suggestion is to go to the Cryonics Institute 
 website (www.cryonics.org) and read it completely. Then go to, say, Alcor's 
 site (www.alcor.org ) , and completely read theirs. Also American Cryonics 
 Society, and Trans Time. Use your head. You are a consumer and can evaluate 
 what you need and how much you want to spend. Trust yourself. In my case, I'm 
 happy with the choice I've made, and once everything is settled I know that the
 odds of me waking up in 150 years better than new are looking better and 
 better each day. Best of luck with your search.

Matthew S. Malek wrote (on 20 February 2005)

Greetings!

Although I have been intending to live forever via cryonics since I was
fifteen, I have not yet signed up to be frozen... largely because of
budgetary constraints (I was a grad student until 2003) and the lack of
international support (I lived in Japan half time from 1998 till 2003).

This year I will turn thirty and I intend to sign up to be frozen before
then. The money is no longer an issue and the international travel is
less frequent than it used to be.

Which begs the question: Who should I sign up with? Alcor? Cryonics
Institute? Somebody else???

As a scientist, I would like to look at success rates to determine the
best organization to join. Unfortunately, there are no success rates yet
-- no cryonics patients have been revived to date.

Therefore, I am asking this list for opinions, not so much on who to go
with, but on what criteria y'all would advise one to use in making this
decision.

Thank you very much for sharing your collective wisdom.

=>Long life,
=>Matthew

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