X-Message-Number: 12274 From: "john grigg" <> Subject: I am excited about things... Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:03:42 PDT Hello everyone, I do agree with Thomas Donaldson that things could look more promising in terms of funding and how depending on a few wealthy individuals is not the best way. We have already had the discussion about trying to enlist help from billionaires! I hope someone does try to contact Robert Bigelow though despite all the negativity. I want to heartily yell "hear, hear" to the comments of my friend George Smith! I feel that ultimately the juggernaut of the world scientific research community will triumph in the areas we need. I do feel though that this will take time and so for us to research among ourselves better ways to preserve the brain is a prudent course. I am only thirty-two years old and can probably wait things out but not everyone has the luxury of time. I realize why people would be skeptical about the advances of 21st Century Medicine but if the article by Charles Platt was right, where three glass vials were shown with vastly different levels of ice crystal formation in each one, then perhaps we are not as far away from success as some fear. Any date given as to when we find out the results of 21st Century Medicine's research? I actually have a fantasy where some billionaire dies and I am found out to be his heir! I give fifty million each to the following organizations, Cryocare, Cryonics Institute, Alcor and the Prometheus Institute. Then I would buy as much stock as I could in Saul Kent's latest enterprises! If this fantasy came true I would probably suffer from "the billionaire's malady" and become very tight-fisted with all the money! lol Then again I just might do it and then hold a cryonics convention at the Playboy Mansion! I look forward greatly to future developments. I just hope that thirty years from now when I am sixty-two there is not the lack of money, organization and technological know-how that there is now!! Sincerely, John Grigg _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12274