X-Message-Number: 6718
Date: 09 Aug 96 03:47:23 EDT
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Prometheus Pledge: Totals
The Prometheus Project:
Convincingly demonstrated, scientifically proven and published,
fully reversible long-term brain cryopreservation within 10 years.
Latest Pledge Totals
As of midnight PDT August 8, 1996, the total of pledges is $300,200 per
year for each of 10 years. We were pushed past the 30% mark by an email note
which came from Australian graduate student Daniel Jacobs who raised his
pledge from $500 per year to $2,500 per year in his note replying to my
request of all pledgers for their signup status:
Daniel wrote:
>No I am not signed up with a cryonics organisation. I have thought about it
>carefully and a few things have held me back;
>
>1. I live in Australia and if I were to die then I would probably be mush by
>the time any organisation got around to freezing me.
>2. My age. As I am relatively young the chance that my death (in the near
>future) would involve major brain trauma is very high.
>3. Cost. I'm just a poor grad student.
>4. Current technology is so primitive. This is probably the major reason
>why I haven't bothered to sign up and why I think that this project is so
>important.
>
>Having given it this much thought and as the project is not going to start
>until 1998 I feel I should increase my pledge from $500 to $2500. This is
>not going to be easy for me as this is about 20% of my current income
>(although hopefully not in 1998) but I hope it indicates my belief in the
>importance of this work.
>
>Yours Sincerely
>
>Daniel Jacobs
>School of Microbiology & Immunology
>University of New South Wales
Thanks very much Daniel for this vote of confidence and for your sincere
desire to want to live.
And now I ask all readers: Is this irational emotionalism, blind faith,
the band wagon effect, or any of those other inane insults that some have
been directed against Prometheus Project pledgers? Here is a serious, bright,
young, graduate biological science student who is saying he has given the
project a lot of thought and decided that it is very important. Does anyone
seriously believe that this man has merely fallen for a lot of "advertising
hype"?
And he has also put his money where his mouth is!
So what is stopping YOU and YOU and YOU from pledging?
Since Daniel had been teamed up with Randy Smith to make $1000 total, this
vote of support leaves Randy needing to find a new partner. Until he does, I
have told him that he will remain in the list.
Pledge totals in each dollar level are now:
3 for $50,000 per year for 10 years,
8 for $10,000 per year for 10 years,
7 for $5,000 per year for 10 years,
1 for $4,000 per year for 10 years,
1 for $3,000 per year for 10 years,
1 for $2,500 per year for 10 years,
3 for $2,000 per year for 10 years,
1 for $1,200 per year for 10 years,
18 for $1,000 per year for 10 years,
1 for $500 per year for 10 years.
The 44 pledges total $3,002,000 over all ten years.
Pledge totals per year by national origin:
Australia $4,500
Canada $22,000
France $2,000
United States $266,700
No country $5,000
-- Paul --
!!!!! REVERSIBLE BRAIN CRYOPRESERVATION *CAN* BE ACHIEVED IN 10 YEARS !!!!!
Paul Wakfer email: Voice/Fax: Pager:
US: 1220 E Washington St #24, Colton, CA 92324 909-481-4433 800-805-2870
Canada: 238 Davenport Rd #240, Toronto, ON M5R 1J6 416-968-6291 416-446-9461
(currently in California)
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