X-Message-Number: 31263
From: "Chris Manning" <>
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Subject: Re: O'Rights -- a chance
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:55:07 +1100

> Message #31259
> From: 
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:52:07 EST
> Subject: Re: O'Rights -- a chance
>
> In a message dated 12/12/2008 3:00:57 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, Chris
> Manning writes:
>
> Regarding my own donation, I have indicated that if it can't be spent  on 
> Mr
> O'Rights then I want it applied to Marce Johnson. That would not be 
> possible
> if it were gambled and lost.
> I think she is also short of the needed amount, though she has more than 
> he
> does.

I believe that's correct.

>Perhaps the amounts combined are enough for one person. Then maybe  the
> amounts should be combined and lots drawn to see which one gets it.

Well surely this depends on the wishes of each donor. For myself I made a 
donation for each of them, and I have told David Pizer that if either person 
can't be suspended then I want the donation I made for that person directed 
to the other.

> If she
> has, say, twice what he does then she'd deserve twice the chance,

I don't think that's obvious.

> so she'd  get
> two chips and he'd get one, to be drawn from a jar.
>
> In this way the money would stay in the cryonics community, as opposed to
> being lost to some casino. And if there were money left over, it could go 
> to the
> loser's representative, who would bet it (probably on a long-shot bet 
> paying
> 6-to-1 or whatever was needed) at a casino.

> As is, it looks like neither one will be preserved and someone will have 
> to
> decide what to do with the money.

I have told David Pizer that in that event I want my money put in some 
suitable fund to be used to pay for any future needy case.

> I do agree that the contributors would have to agree to the plan.
>
> Alan Mole

In case it helps to encourage some other people to donate who havent yet 
done so, I will reveal that I donated A$200 for Mr O'Rights. This converted 
to US$174.30. (The Australian dollar was doing much better then than it is 
now.) I am not wealthy. It works out that if just 86 new donors matched my 
donation the required minimum sum would be raised. 

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