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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Paul Allen
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:30:11 +0100

It has been suggested that cryonicists get Paul Allen (co founder of
Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/Sept00/09-0525bookff75.mspx
 ) interested in cryonics. It seems that once again it is necessary to refer
those with such proposals to the CI web page
http://www.cryonics.org/whydontwe.html

>>[Why don't we] Try and get famous people interested?

They are very unlikely be willing to spend the time evaluating cryonics
personally, and any assistant is going to find it less demanding on his own
time to dismiss the idea out of hand. <<

Even the leaders of the cryonics organisations are nonentities to such
people, never mind those new to the cryonics movement who come up with these
ideas. It has been tried often enough in the past to no or little avail and
I can see no benefit in assailing the offices of these people like a swarm
of angry wasps, even though there may well be very sound logic in cryonics
ideas.

What we can do is to have web sites and other material available and hope
that they will come to us. Indeed this may have happened already, but they
have "ticked the no publicity box". Most people in the developed world have
heard about cryonics. This is because cryonicists as a group are highly
fortunate in that it is a popular subject with journalists and broadcasters.
Just look at http://www.cryonics-europe.org/media.htm

If Paul Allen or anyone else wants to consider cryonics, they can do so
without anyone in the movement even knowing about it until and unless they
have decided, without any direct persuasion, to give money. The very last
thing these people want is to engage in conversation and have someone
clinging to them like a limpet until they part with money. They get enough
of that sort of thing from charities that want to give their money to the
organisers so that they can give it to Africa and the suchlike.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley R
eeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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