X-Message-Number: 13461
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:39:42 -0400
From: gary tripp <>
Subject: charitable funding of suspensions

In Message #13455 Joanna J. Epstein writes:

>....
>I need to know different approaches to funding one's suspension. I was 
diagnosed with a progressive neurological condition, and I can't find any way 
to insure myself, or find any alternatives that would allow me to have the 
financial ability to have myself suspended.

My doctors tell me that I have about 8-10 years before this option would be 
needed.

Dear Joanna, 

I have ruminated on this problem and have come to the conclusion
that seeking donations toward ones suspension simply does not work unless it
is carried out through the aegis of a charitable organization that can
invest its money in a technology fund with a sufficient time horizon.
The problem is that future suspension technology may be much more expensive
than any current procedure. Also, in eight to ten years, research may become
available to show convincingly that our current procedures do not work and
that only the new procedures offer any hope. Personally, I have serious
doubts about current procedures. Time is the critical factor.

A charity would be a good way to solve this problem.
Such an organization could invest and accumulate money in a tax free
environmnet and so fund research into cryonic suspension technology in
addition to the occasional suspension. A worthy additional project that 
the charity might fund would consist of a wearable vital signs monitoring 
device that can send telemetry as well as positioning info to a base
station. This is an application that would have wide use in medical circles
outside of our application in cryonics. In the same manner that the fund
invests in technology stocks it could also make direct investments in
a startup that seeks to commercialize the technology. If it gets going
the fund might be able put an end to the problem that you and others face
once and for all. There are myriad other possibilities too!

On a different note, there may be supplements that one might take to
increase life expectancy. The life-extension foundation has a website with
tons of useful info. Also Tom Matthews appears to know a heck of a lot about
such things and you might try contacting him at 

Comments anyone?

/gary

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