X-Message-Number: 10286 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:19:22 -0700 From: Paul Wakfer <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #10273 Promotion References: <> > Message #10273 > From: "Chris Fideli" <> > Subject: promotion > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:39:29 -0400 >Money I don't have - I'm an impoverished student with nothing to donate to >the Hippocampal Slice project. What I do have is time and energy. To be >honest, I'm almost literally dying to help out. I hate the feeling of not >being able to do more then I'm doing to save my own life. > >And this is a question I've asked a couple of the members of cryonics >organizations that I've come in contact with: "Anything I can do to help?" >No one seemed to have any ideas for me. Here I am, a 24 year old kid >willing to work for free! I've never been involved in an organization in my >life that didn't jump all over an offer for volunteer work. But now that >I'm involved in something I actually give a shit about, it seems as if >there's nothing for me to do. > >So instead, I've been thinking about ways to publicize cryonics, posting on >this list and using my rhetorical skills on friends and family. If anyone >else can put me to use in the work of promoting cryonics, please let me >know. Otherwise I'll just keep bugging everyone on here with my worthless >suggestions : ) I would be very pleased to have you help promote cryopreservation research, specifically at the moment, the Hippocampal Slice cryopreservation Project, and to also do fund raising for it. People are probably tired of *me* soliciting them, and frankly I am tired of it too. I need some help and some new ideas. If you are interested to help you should start by reading the three web sites: http://prometheus-project.org http://morelife.org http://neurocryo.org If you are still interested then we should enter into a dialogue to try to get further in promotion and fund raising for these ideas. Finally, on cryonics promotion in general, I do agree that more, different, and better promotion is necessary. I just don't believe that attempting it now will be nearly as effective use of time and effort in the long run as using that same time and effort to promote and fund research. Once we we get better research results and suspension methods, any time and effort spent on promotion and enrollment for cryonics will be more productive. This belief is strengthened by the fact that the cost of reaching suspended animation goals which should have a major impact upon the public through the science and media establishment, is relatively small and should be easily affordable by the current small number of cryonicists if they would only demonstrate that love of life which they all profess to have. -- Paul -- Voice/Fax: 909-481-9620 Page: 800-805-2870 The Institute for Neural Cryobiology - http://neurocryo.org Perfected cryopreservation of Central Nervous System tissue for neuroscience research and medical repair of brain diseases Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10286