X-Message-Number: 32981 From: 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 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32981