X-Message-Number: 329 From att!CompuServe.COM!72320.1642 Mon May 13 08:57:25 EDT 1991 Date: 13 May 91 00:36:42 EDT From: STEVE BRIDGE <> To: KEVIN <> Subject: CRYONICS #322 - TRANS TIME Message-Id: <"910513043642 72320.1642 EHK50-1"@CompuServe.COM> TO: KEVIN Reply to Simon Levy: I understand your concerns about Art Quaife and Trans Time using the cryonics network as advertising for a profit-making company; but I think they are misplaced. It is no more wrong for Art to use this network to promote Trans Time than it is for me to use the network to promote Alcor, which I have several times. On many occasions I have either asked for donations or encouraged people to sign up with Alcor. Your concern for and loyalty to Alcor is comforting, but Alcor can handle competition. That is the American way. And Art's little shot at Alcor about our "can-rattling" approach to fund-raising was clever, not nasty. I don't mind. Art is not a bad guy and does have a genuine concern for cryonics and cryonicists. I don't always agree with him but I have never felt that he placed the interests of his bank account ahead of that of cryonics. He has been at least as poor as most of the other cryonics leaders for years. Also, the cutting remarks by Art are small change compared to the truly nasty (and occasionally slanderous) things said by both American Cryonics Society and Alcor members in the past. We all need to be a bit thicker- skinned than that. As far as the debate between profit vs. non-profit cryonics, I agree with you that non-profit cryonics looks like the better public image at the moment. However, one can have quite honest philosophical and practical disagreements with this approach; and it may well turn out that the profit approach will turn out to be more successful in the "long term." I suggest that both styles be retained; so that if one succeeds and one fails, we may yet have another wagon on which to jump. Steve Bridge, Midwest Coordinator, Alcor Life Extension Foundation Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=329