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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:59:51 EST
Subject: Re:Kennita 

In a message dated 3/10/2007 3:00:58 AM Mountain Standard Time, Charles  
Platt writes:
 
>Maybe Kennita Watson can redirect her zeal to the  challenging
>task of promoting cryonics to elderly people in  nursing
>homes. Of course this would be less fun than hanging out  in
>Colorado, chatting with tourists.

 
I live near Nederland and had planned to be more active in FDGD this  year. 
But I had a long cough and dizzy spell, and for January and February got  up, 
staggered around, and went back to bed a few hours later, getting little  done 
and falling behind. I've been OK for a week or two now, and am growing  

ambitious again.  I did get up to Nederland today, and found a blizzard  damping
down the festivities.
 
Kennita was at the Best Western, where she showed a cryonics video,  answered 
questions, and manned a double table full of literature from cryonics  
organizations. Her video audience was perhaps thirty people, including older  

couples and youngsters. Her table was near the fireplace and many people filled
out 
her questionnaires as they sat around.  Three young girls, 8 - 13,  thought 
cryonics was groovy and wanted to sign up. They spent half an hour on  the 
survey forms, discussing each question. A local grad student in biochemistry  
stopped by and talked, saying he was preparing to sign up with CI.
 
I spelled her for a while, and sat and discussed cryonics with her  between 
questioners. Mostly I listened as she intelligently fielded  questions.  In 

four or more showings of the video and two days at the table  she will probably
acquaint a couple of hundred people with cryonics. 
 
It is fun, Colorado is indeed a good place, and some of the questioners  may 
have been tourists.  So what? 
 
A lot of people were educated accurately about cryonics, and left with  good 
feelings about it. Children at an impressionable age learned about it, and  
will probably be pro-cryonics all their lives.
 
Kennita is doing an excellent job and making a positive  contribution, in 
strong contrast to certain of her critics.
 
Alan Mole




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