X-Message-Number: 6428
From:  (Daniel Jacobs)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Importance of Brain Cryopreservation
Date: 1 Jul 1996 01:11:04 GMT
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In article <>,  (Brian Wowk) wrote:

 
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>         A challenge then: Match contributions at a 5% rate.  Offer 
> 5 cents for every dollar raised from other cryonicists for brain 
> cryopreservation research.  Scarcely a few thousand dollars a year
> are now spent on pure brain cryopreservation research.  If you are 
> right, then you are out perhaps a year's cable TV budget and 
> Brian Wowk is left with egg all over his face.  If you are 
> wrong... your life expectancy increases by orders of magnitude, you
> will be acclaimed as a hero, and cryonics will never be the same again.
>  
> (Note: Any such matching contributions are of course contigent upon
> your approval of final details of any project that materializes.)

O.K. I'm in. Brian is total right. Send me the project proposal and if it
is good I will gladly give my five percent. Unfortunatly as I am only a
poor PhD student it won't be huge (about US$500 per year) but this work
has to start somewhere. 
 
> >However, if spending all
> >my money would get me a new heart when my old one is failing, with death
> >the alternative, I would spend it.
>  
>         We are talking about picking up a sledge hammer and knocking
> the block off the Grim Reaper-- a blow to Death so devastating that 
> it would save your life if ANY organ ever failed without replacement.
> A blow that will resound through medicine for the next 100 years.
> C'mon Brad, step up to the plate and take your best swing with that
> hammer!  Transform cryonics from something "interesting" to something
> definitive and irrefutable.  Be one of the people that cures not
> heart disease or cancer, but death itself.  I dare ya! 
>  
> ***************************************************************************
> Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
> President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
>    http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/
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