X-Message-Number: 29266
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:39:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: selling

Jeff Davis suggests that I would be the last person likely
to, or capable of, bringing people into cryonics.

Actually Jeff I created what I believe was the single most
successful PR initiative in cryonics history. (Of course that
was before I became old and jaded.) Among the people who
apparently have been influenced to sign up because of text
that I wrote are Joe Waynick and Rudi Hoffman. Aschwin de
Wolf ended up working at Suspended Animation in Florida
either because of or in spite of me, and I believe I may have
influenced Todd Huffman's decision to relocate in Arizona (he
has since been an important participant in many cryonics
cases). Also I seem to recall that someone paid $100,000 cash
in advance for a membership, supposedly because he simply
read the Alcor web site, much of which consisted of my
writing at that time.

What you may not realize, Jeff, is that skepticism can be
reassuring to people who are making up their minds about
cryonics. Conversely, gung-ho positivism can seem
unpleasantly similar to the kind of thing you find in a cult.

Now, tell me, how many of those millions of supposedly prime
candidates have _you_ encouraged to become members, let alone
activists?

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