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From: "Halperin, Jim" <>
Subject: RE: CryoNet #9018, 9019, 9021 and 9023
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 08:39:24 -0600

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	For their wonderful comments about The First Immortal posted on 
Sunday's Cryonet, I wish to thank Fred Chamberlain, Richard Zagorski 
and my friend John K. Clark, who, along with quite a few other members 
of the Cryonet community, graciously contributed his own terrific 
ideas and insight to the book. I also appreciate Edgar Swank's 
announcement that ACS is offering The First Immortal (alongside Linda 
Nagata's brilliant novel, Tech Heaven) on their Web site. Finally, I 
feel flattered that Robert Ettinger, who by the way also made a great 
contribution to The First Immortal, would recommend me as a potential 
fund-raising leader for whatever research organization that might 
follow the path blazed by Paul Wafker.
	I only wish I had the time to do it. Unfortunately I have a business 
to run, a novel to promote, other novels to edit and rewrite, and a 
family that likes to see me occasionally. However, rest assured that 
brain preservation research is a cause to which I remain committed, 
and to which I intent to contribute financially if not through sweat 
equity.	
	I have been interested in health education since my early twenties 
(I'm 45), and currently endow a health education foundation in Dallas. 
One of my original goals in writing The First Immortal was to help 
people understand what the immortalist movement was really about, and 
to paint the most realistic possible picture of its potential and its 
weaknesses. When I began researching TFI, I was not yet a cryonicist 
myself, and wasn't quite sure whether cryonics was a realistic idea. 
It was during the course of research that I became convinced of its 
logic, and decided to join Alcor.
	While I will not be able to offer my services in any management 
capacity, I do intend to continue contributing financially to 
cryonics. In fact, I have publicly stated that I will be donating ALL 
my book royalties from The First Immortal, after expenses, to various 
health- and education-related causes, including cryonics 
organizations.
	I really appreciate the support of the cryonics community, and I hope 
above all that The First Immortal will prove helpful in attracting new 
adherents to the movement.
	Warmest regards to all,
	Jim Halperin

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