X-Message-Number: 9776
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 13:47:05 -0400
From: Saul Kent <>
Subject: Improvement In Cryonics Methods

        Since tmazanecl (9772) has apparently not
read my posts to Cryonet over the past couple of months,
I'll state again that, in my opinion, the most important
step to take to help the growth of the cryonics movement
is research to improve cryonics methods.

        I not only believe this, but I (and my partner Bill
Faloon) are investing $1 million a year in 21st Century
Medicine (21CM) to make it happen.  In addiiton, I am
now spending most of my time in efforts to raise 
additional funds for 21CM.

        I further believe that it would inappropriate
to spend any substantial dollars on marketing until after
we achieve major breakthroughs in cryonics, such as
successful brain cryopreservation.

        You ask for causes of death that will lead
to preservation of patients in the future, even after a
patient frozen under today's conditions has been
revived.  My answer is that I believe that some of
today's patients will not be able to be revived with
22nd century medical technology because of severe
brain damage caused by ischemia, disease,
accident and autopsy.  I believe that patients with
similar degrees of brain damage will continue to
by preserved long after we can restore *some* of
today's patients back to life.

        I also believe that, within the next
5-to-10 years,  we (at 21CM) will develop much
improved cryonics methods, which will permit the 
revival of patients preserved with these methods
long before the onset of the 22nd century.

---Saul Kent, CEO
21st Century Medicine   

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