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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Despres Hall of Infamy
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:42:21 +0100

Flavanoid brought a smile to my face at the thought of having a "Despres
Hall of Infamy" - I think a phrase may have been invented here, like "Ponzi
Scheme" derived from the originator of commercial chain letters.

CS is run by Nick Pavlica, a direct marketing specialist and corporate
president, and Bruce Waugh, a Director, is a former Treasurer and Vice
President of the Cryonics Society of Canada. He served
alongside Brian Wowk, Ben Best, Charles Platt, and others, as a Director of
CryoCare, and is a member in good standing of the bars of California and
Ontario, Canada. David Pascal worked in marketing and advertising generally
for over fifteen years for clients ranging from Xerox to Amnesty
International.

Therefore this is a very different from Despres's one man band of a web
site.

Despres came in from the outside with nothing and plans to take over the
cryonics movement by many and various dubious schemes such as hijacking
people's names and collecting money in the names of organisations who do not
want to be associated with him. Despres is trying to force himself on the
movement as a Leader, and that never works. (Most infamous leaders
throughout history originally got themselves involved in politics through
legitimate processes of the time in which they lived.)

Of course even genuine business plans are not certain to work, and it may
well be that the "Cryonics Society" advertising project did not work. No one
has ever found a sure and certain way of commercially promoting cryonics as
a service, and I suspect that Readers' Digest advertising methods won't work
either, however skilfully written. (And David Pascal is good.)

As a movement, all cryonicists can do is to try and educate other people as
to what is available and its advantages in a non-pushy non-threatening way.
Hopefully a few will sign up. The easier it is made, the more likely more
people will sign, but signing up for cryonics is very much constrained by
what the rest of the world's systems of authority require. That is not a
feature of cryonics service providers, but a feature of how individuals are
governed by society as a whole.

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

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