X-Message-Number: 11388 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 07:02:50 -0500 From: Saul Kent <> Subject: Kubrick, Schloss and Sellers Bob Ettinger just posted (11384) some recollections about Stanley Kubrick's activities vis-a-vis cryonics in the 1960s. One thing Ben Schloss did after reading The Prospect of Immortality was to hold a fundraising meeting for cryonics "research" at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York, which I attended. Schloss called his organization the Society for Anabiosis. He started the meeting by reading a long series of "telegrams" from celebrities such as Nelson Rockefeller (then Governor of New York) who were "unable to attend". This took up so much time that several people dozed off. As far as I could determine, Ben didn't raise any money during this meeting. Later Ben started an organization to achieve physical immortality by 1989. Unfortunately, he died of cancer well before 1989. I talked to him after he was diagnosed with cancer. He said he didn't want to make preparation to be frozen because he was too busy "raising funds" to achieve immortality by 1989. I understand that another person who received a copy of Ettinger's book from Kubrick was film actor Peter Sellers, who allegedly read the book after his first heart attack and then exclaimed that he was very excited about the prospect of being frozen. Sellers died some years later of another heart attack. He was not frozen. I am an admirer of Kubrick's films. I hoped that he would someday make a film about cryonics/life extension. I guess I'll have to wait for Stephen Spielberg. ---Saul Kent Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11388