X-Message-Number: 4253
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Cryonics Book

Rich Schroeppel asks what I'm going to do with all the material that I
gathered for my cryonics nonfiction book. This material, incidentally,
includes interviews with people in the field who played an active part in
cryonics history, including Curtis Henderson (about ten hours of
reminiscences), Bob Nelson (I visited him at his current home), the lawyer
who blew the whistle on Nelson, the funeral director who was indicted with
Nelson, and on and on. 

There are still big gaps in my story--for instance, I never got to Robert
Ettinger, partly because he was lukewarm to the idea of focusing on
personalities (including himself) and partly because I like to do all my
work in person, and I never made it to Michigan. It is important to 
realize that I did not *complete* my cryonics book; the version of it 
that was turned down by various publishers was a portion and outline.

Still, there is a huge amount of material, here--including a step-by-step 
description of the case of Jim Glennie, whom I met three months before he 
was ultimately frozen. I was the photographer during his perfusion. I 
believe this is the only time that someone has chronicled a case in quite 
this way.

I have been reluctant to throw this text into the net because I still 
hope that this book can be published in some form, one day, and 
publishers are understandably nervous about text that has been freely 
shared. Also, many of the interview tapes have not been transcribed. (Do 
I hear anyone volunteering for this wearying task??)

I hope to use some of the material in a general information book which I 
have to help prepare for CryoCare. The rest ... I honestly don't know.

--Charles Platt


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