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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:09:41 EDT
Subject: afterthoughts

Our web site has a fair amount of background information on our last patient,
Natasha Matic. I am glad to say that now her son, Rudy, has written a longer
piece, which will appear in the next issue of THE IMMORTALIST and also on THE
IMMORTALIST ONLINE on our web site. It's a must read.

I forgot previously to credit Jim Halperin in this connection--the Matics
found us through THE FIRST IMMORTAL. I wonder how many future immortals will
owe their lives to that book?

And a minor irony: Glancing at Jim's book on my shelf, I see the publisher is
Del Rey books (division of Ballantine). As it happens, Lester Del Rey (now
dust), a friend of Fred Pohl, was a participant on one of the early Long John
Nebel radio show discussions of cryonics. He was virulently hostile. 

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org

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