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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:40:15 EDT
Subject: Re: Platt's article

Charles Platt raises funding questions that are disturbing. In partial  
answer I suggest:
 
Cost Cutting. Alcor charges $150,000 and CI only $28,000. Perhaps there are 
 ways Alcor costs could approach CI's. My impression is that Alcor enjoys  
generous funding from LEF and concentrates on improving its services instead 
of  cutting their costs. Possibly a group examining cost/benefit and 

efficiencies  could bring cost down without harming quality. Of course an Alcor
contract may  include standby or other services CI does not provide, but the 
five-times  difference in cost does seem to offer room for trimming the 
higher number. But  I'm a CI member so I really don't know about Alcor.
 
Getting more rich businessmen into cryonics by lecturing at Rotary and  
Kiwanis groups. They meet weekly and need speakers, and they are composed of  
mostly-older businessmen. (Have *I* tried? Yes. The local Rotary said no. A  
Kiwanis group said yes, but called two weeks later to say they had 

discovered  they had too few members and therefore dissolved! Maybe I should 
take the 
hint,  but I'll try again.)
 
Alan Mole
 
 
 
 


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