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

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