X-Message-Number: 26728 From: Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:11:01 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #26712 - #26725 Brent Fox writes in part: the growth of Patient Population should not ever exceed the Membership growth, otherwise the organization will become stagnate and eventually extinct. Not necessarily. If the number of living members went to zero but new death-bed cases kept coming in, that would not be stagnation. Incidentally, Ben says the number of CI members is now 540. As far as I recall, the ratio of fully prepared to membership has stayed roughly constant, or perhaps improved a bit, so the growth however measured is about as I said, better than double in the last five years. Measures are being taken to improve the ratio of fully prepared members. Robert Ettinger Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26728