X-Message-Number: 17322
From: "Reason" <>

Subject: [Longevity Meme] life extension community building and activism; 
volunteers sought
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:45:08 -0700

[Although strictly a life extension topic, this should be of interest to
cryonet posters].

The Longevity Meme website has reached a point at which
I can officially launch the first Project and solicit
comments, help and participation from those who are
interested. (Which from my point of view should be all
of you, but I'm admittedly biased on this issue :)

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http://www.longevitymeme.org

"The Longevity Meme is a California-based non-profit
organisation, founded in mid-2001. Our goal is to
encourage achievable technologies, lifestyles and
other means that will help people live comfortably,
healthily and capably for as long as they desire,
well beyond the current limits of mortality. We
aim to ensure that the means and potentials of
life extension become commonly accepted throughout
the world.

Aging is an enemy to all of us, but a lack of
information, advocacy and awareness of life extension is
worse yet. Much of the general public thinks of aging as
inevitable and natural. Until life extension movements
become more mainstream, progress in defeating aging will
continue to be frustratingly slow.

The Longevity Meme is also an idea; a way in which we can
all help ourselves and others to live healthily and live
longer. How much longer? It is up to all of us, as individuals
and as a society, to see what can be achieved when we all
work together."

http://www.longevitymeme.org/project-1-site.cfm

"Longevity Meme Projects are comprised of activities and group
efforts intended to promote awareness and serious discussion of
life extension in the mainstream media and society at large. We
believe that fostering a greater consideration of life extension
and its potentials is a vital part of the fight against aging.

Our first Longevity Meme Project is a little less directly focused
on awareness than future Projects will be. Before we can act as a
community resource and center for coordination, we must build the
core components of this website, write the initial content and
form the seed community. This Project is underway: join in!"

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The current modest aim is to make the life extension
community aware of the existence of the Longevity Meme and
thereby gather a core or seed community of interested helpers
to move our first project to completion. At the same time,
we can discuss and then begin the task of evangelizing the
Longevity Meme and life extension in general to the general
public through future projects and activism.

Please visit the Longevity Meme site and our first project
pages, where you will find a list of suggestions on how any
one of you could help the Longevity Meme in ways both large and
small. It can be as simple as linking to us, telling a friend,
or offering us suggestions -- and by helping us now, you help
yourself in the long term.

I would appreciate any constructive commentary on this post
or any aspects of the Longevity Meme being posted to the
Longevity Meme Forum:

http://www.longevitymeme.org/forum/.

The simple act of joining the forum and posting an opinion helps
the Longevity Meme immensely in this early stage of
building a community.

I hope to see some of you over there.

Reason
President, Longevity Meme

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