X-Message-Number: 12892 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: Venturist/Cryonics community, decentralized Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:54:41 -0000 A decentralised cryonics community of ordinary houses is an interesting concept that could in theory be applied to any area. All it takes is for a few people living near each other to join together to form such a self help group. The group could employ one cleaner that works from house to house, one gardener, one nurse etc. Persuading people to move house is not, in my view, a sensible project to attempt - it is probably more difficult than persuading them to sign up for cryopreservation itself. But nevertheless, if a given area is a sought after retirement area it may be possible to divert people to that area rather than another if they are moving anyway and the choice is in the noise level. . (i.e. they are not moving to be near another particular person or particular locality.) If a cryonics organisation wanted to have a few houses it could offer for rent as retirement homes, then it may be able to obtain them by offering to buy reversions from some of the people first moving there. That way, it will acquire the properties for some 40% of their open market value. A reversion is where an elderly person sells an organisation their house but retains the right to live there for the rest of their natural life. Notice how lawyers talk about *natural* life - it is almost as if they know life extension is coming:-) -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, my singles club for people in Cornwall, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other projects: http://geocities.yahoo.com/longevityrpt ----- Original Message ----- > Message #12889 > From: "Brook and Helen" <> > Subject: Venturist/Cryonics community, decentralized > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:09:53 -0800 > > Dave Pizer recently suggested a cryonics community in the Phoenix area that > would be centered around an apartment complex. Bob Ettinger then discussed > the difficulties and undesirability of leaving one's home for such an > apartment. Perhaps a more attractive option would be to set up a cryonics > community in the Phoenix area, but not in a specific location. Cryonicists > could then pick the type of living arrangements that best suited them. The > community could have services, like daily visitation, or legal counseling, > socials, or whatever. > > Brook Norton > CI member Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12892