X-Message-Number: 6950
From:  (TimeCat)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: I will give you money, but you must all agree to share!
Date: 21 Sep 1996 00:50:48 GMT
Message-ID: <51ve58$>

Here's the deal:

- I have pledged to PP.
- I would like to donate to the Visser research.
- I am also trying to decide between Alcor and Cryocare as my org-de-choice.

So, the logic goes like this:

If I pledge to PP, and sign up with Alcor, will I benefit from the research?
I don't have any guarantee that I will.

If I donate to Visser, and sign up with Cryocare, will I benefit from the 
research? Again, there are no guarantees.

So, in order for all orgs to obtain the greatest amount of pledge dollars 
possible, and also to prove that they are in fact, an organization based on 
a desire to provide the best possible service to their subscribers, I would 
like to suggest that Alcor and Cryocare both publish, and ammend their 
constitutions (or by-laws or whatever the heck they have), to indicate that 
they will freely distribute and make freely available and for public use 
without fees of any kind all information they may come into posession of 
regarding methods and research pertaining to cryonics.

Whoever does this proves that they have their subscribers best interests at 
heart, not their organization. Whoever doesn't, well, they prove the 
opposite.

Even the simplest person (that's me) can see that there is little benefit in 
creating cryonic 'camps', given the limited amount of cryonic resources 
there are. I _do_ think that having multiple cyronics organizations is a 
good thing, but I think they should see themselves as members of a 'family', 
rather than seeing themselves as competitors.

Cryonics is _not_ about getting someone to sign up with one organization, or 
another. It is about survival - the survival of the people at Alcor _and_ 
the survival of the people at Cryocare.

I've seen the start of co-operation in the postings here of late, but I'd 
like to see this go further, and cemented in writing. I don't want to see 
the good intentions fall apart when the dollars start rolling in, and then 
watch everyone go back to their camps and horde the cash.

Just do it!


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