X-Message-Number: 1535 Date: 02 Jan 93 16:37:46 EST From: Charles Platt <> Subject: CRYONICS To: Kevin Brown In response to Scott Herman: Thanks for your kind words re the competition in Omni. I do appreciate the conciliatory gestures that you are making. Re your previous posting, asking for general clarification of facts about Saul Kent, the Cryonics Society of New York, the Dora Kent case, and so on: I regret that Saul does not plan to provide this clarification online, but the sheer magnitude of the task makes it impractical. In 1992 I interviewed a lot of people, including Saul, Curtis Henderson, and Bob Nelson, in connection with a book that I still hope to write about cryonics. In the course of these interviews, I accumulated material which answers most of the questions you have presented. Unfortunately, I have not yet written those parts of my book. In fact, in some cases, I have not even transcribed the interview tapes. To take just one example: the full story of the Cryonics Society of New York took literally hours to narrate. All I can tell you is that I entered this field with an open mind, and I have not found anything at all to suggest to me that Saul or Curtis acted foolishly, irresponsibly, or improperly at any time in the past. On the contrary: they have been more resourceful than I would have been myself in similar situations. ------------------- Reply to Thomas Donaldson: So far as I know, I have never suggested that Alcor should pay money for public relations. Clearly, it would be an unjustifiable expense. Therefore, I can't quite see the point of your posting. When I suggested that Alcor could send out a press release once in a while, I assumed someone at Riverside, or a volunteer such as myself, would be able to handle this. There are many cryonics advocates who have writing skills-- including you, for that matter. With so many talented amateurs around, why even think of hiring a "professional" PR person to promote cryonics? What we really need is a policy. Is PR a good idea or a bad idea? Does Alcor want more publicity, or not? Perhaps our incoming president has views on this. It would be nice if the issue could be clarified. --Charles Platt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1535