X-Message-Number: 707
Date: 08 Apr 92 02:06:28 EDT
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: cryonics: #699

This news makes me feel very mixed. I've been in the Riverside
facility, which suffers very badly from crowding. That seems to me to
be the one major reason to think about moving. If no one can work there
without tripping over something (figuratively) the desire for a new
facility will obviously grow stronger and stronger.

But Arizona? As Michael says, we don't know even whether Alcor will be
welcomed; and the idea of putting down MONEY for such a move, when
Alcor is in its present financial state, makes me worry a lot. Furthermore
although there ARE cryonicists in Arizona, right now there are a whole lot
less of them than in Southern California. Wouldn't it perhaps be a good
idea to try to stick with the members, rather than going far away from 
them? Sure, Arizona offers the possibility of suspending lots of cacti,
but I didn't think that was what cryonics was about.

Finally, as a side comment, as everyone knows Asimov has opposed 
immortalism at every opportunity. Not only that, but his books on science
follow at all times the "establishment" line, and so lose a lot of 
interest to anyone who follows science developments independently. (A lot
of the interest comes from wondering what we'll find just around the
bend ...). But I digress.

I will be phoning Alcor South tomorrow.
				Thomas Donaldson

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