X-Message-Number: 31346 References: <> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:53:06 -0800 (PST) From: Shannon <> Subject: Silver Lining: --0-1645331093-1232848386=:67400 Hello all, Marce did so much for our community and always expected to be cryo-preserved. It is with much sadness that I've had to concede that we all did the best that we could to help in her case, she has been cremated. Personally, I as a Venturist--will do more in the future to help set up suspensions through our Compassionate Care Fund. Including now our efforts to raise enough funds to cryo-preserve William O'Rights. Since learning of Marce's passing, 4 individuals have transferred the money they donated for her fund to William O'Rights Fund. Everything donated to William O'Right's fund is currently being matched by the Immortality Institute: http://imminst.org/ I was happy to be able to transfer the $200.00 I donated to Marce and have it become $400.00 for O'Rights through the ImmInst matching grant. If you donated to Marce and would like your donation transferred to O'Rights it will be doubled by The Immortality Institute and any extra funds beyond his preservation costs will be used to seed a new Venturist Compassionate Care fund. If you are able to transfer your donation to Marce over to William, having your money doubled helps our cryonics community even more in the long run. Right now William O'Rights fund is at about $22,500.00 after all the matching donations and transfers have been calculated. I'll be finalizing with Ben Best tonight when CI will officially take on the case, their fee is $28,000.00 and at least a few thousand over that will be needed for the transport and suspension costs. The sooner you can transfer your donation to O'Rights, or make a straight donation, the better, as his case is quite severe. He has lived beyond his doctor's expectations, but now is in a lot of pain with the cancer tumor effectively blocking his esophagus, he is lucky to get in two cups of water a day. He has been having a difficult time even sleeping as his back pain is so great he is considering morphine, but has been keeping off pain medications valiantly far longer than most would be able. His weight is down, fluid is filling his lungs, the cancer has spread throughout his body--there are 17 pages of medical reports here: http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=23100&st=480 It is imperative that we raise the funds if we can this week, there is not much time left. William is taking chemo-therapy and is still fighting his cancer in various way, I hope he lives a lot longer. We really need to get his suspension arrangements in place though, healthy or not everyone should have their arrangements in place ;-) Also, times are tight right now for many and it is completely understandable if you would like to have money you donated for Marce refunded to you, just let us know in the email or letter you send. If you don't recall the exact amount you donated just say, "Please transfer what I donated to Marce, to William O'Right's fund". Or, "Please refund what I donated, to me at: _______". Mark has the records and will be able to tell you the amount. Here is the contact information for transferring or refunding your donation to Marce: Mark Plus <> or: The Venturists C/O The CreeksideLodge 11255 State Route 69 Mayer Arizona 86333 Thank you, Shannon Vyff, Venturist Director, Immortality Institute Chair PS any straight donations to William O'Rights can be made to the Venturist google account http://www.quantium.plus.com/venturist/, they too will be doubled by the Immortality Institute. Message #31341 From: Mark Plus <> Subject: Marce Johnson dies, no cryosuspension(?) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:14:42 -0800 Shannon Vyff reports the sad news here: http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=14980&view=findpost&p=294806 "Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . . Life expectancy will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death wll be rare and accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981). http://www.box.net/shared/static/ay9lub60ha.pdf Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ HotmailR goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31341 End of CryoNet Digest ********************* --0-1645331093-1232848386=:67400 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31346