X-Message-Number: 27022
From: "Jordan Sparks" <>
Subject: Oregon Cryonics and preneed sales
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:24:27 -0700

To those who view me as a threat... lighten up a little bit!  There's a
big difference between hashing out ideas on this forum and actually
going out in the world and doing something about it.  And I'm no more of
a cowboy than any other cryonics activist.  I'm not just going to sit
back and watch the industry limp along for another 30 years.

If it makes you feel any better, I've decided to postpone offering
storage.  The Oregon mortuary board has no incentive to license me as a
cemetery.  I need to dangle a carrot in front of them.  If I have an
ongoing business that they would like to regulate, then that gives them
incentive.  So I will begin marketing cryonics and will arrange funding
using a combination of life insurance, revocable trusts, bequeathals,
and possibly something even more creative like joint ownership of
assets.  If I get enough members, then they will begin to notice me.
You see, if I was licensed as a cemetery, then I would be required to
follow the preneed sales laws.  But since I'm not, I don't have to.
They won't like that very much, but there's not much they can do about
it.  So then I have something to negotiate with.  License me as a
cemetery and I will start following the preneed laws.  Then, they would
be able to better regulate my sales tactics.  I'm going to try to also
come up with a second carrot in case the first one's not enough.
Possible angles of attack are long-term storage in LN2, licensing as a
procurement company, use of land zoned as public, and separate
disposition of head and body.  I also need to go on the offensive to
prevent a law such as the one in BC that expressly prohibits advertising
cryonics.

Jordan Sparks

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