X-Message-Number: 6942 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 96 10:43:24 From: Steve Bridge <> Subject: Re: Toxicity and support To CryoNet >From Steve Bridge, Alcor September 19, 1996 In reply to: > Message #6931 > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:19:08 -0400 (EDT) > From: Charles Platt <> > Subject: Toxicity > > Since Hugh Hixon has been willing to report some details to us online (for > which I am very grateful, thanks Hugh) I wonder if he'd be able to answer > one very basic question: without revealing anything about the actual > composition of Visser's cryoprotectant, do you know if it has been > evaluated for toxicity? If we don't know how toxic it is, surely it's a > little premature for anyone to think of using it on a human patient? Yes, it has been evaluated for toxicity. ANY further information is inappropriate to give until the paper is released, since a series of seemingly simple questions like this could eventually give enough total information for a clever chemist to identify some of the components. Thanks to several people for various offers (both public and private) of cooperation, donations, and other assistance. While a certain amount of negative public gesturing is still going on, it is useful and encouraging for me to see that most cryonicists are more concerned about saving their own lives than in defeating other cryonicists -- even if they only express it privately. A word in this regard to Mr. Coetzee: > Message #6932 > From: > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:07:53 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Pledge for Visser project > > Date sent: 18-SEP-1996 11:55:41 > I pledge $1000.00 to the Visser project. A few months ago I rejected > cryo preservation in favour of embalming and perma frost burial. The > Visser methode has given me new hope. I will consider myself very lucky > to be cryo preserved with her cryo protectant. I had a $100,000.00 > medical bill last year and have another expensive procedure next month. > I just wish I had the money to pledge more to the Visser project. > I think Platt and Wakfer should get into a different line of business. We appreciate the support, and I hope your medical situation was improve. However, it is not necessary to attack Platt and Wakfer or the Prometheus Project in order to be supportive of Alcor. Thank you. Steve Bridge Stephen Bridge, President () Alcor Life Extension Foundation Non-profit cryonic suspension services since 1972. 7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916 Phone (602) 922-9013 (800) 367-2228 FAX (602) 922-9027 for general requests http://www.alcor.org Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6942