X-Message-Number: 18293
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:26:40 -0700
From: Jerry Lemler <>
Subject: Merely a Messenger

      I wish to express my deepest, heartfelt thanks and appreciation to 
Bob Ettinger for his flattering remarks regarding my new book, Alcor Life 
Extension Foundation:  An Introduction, which is intended, (as Mr. Ettinger 
correctly surmises), to replace the 1993 introductory monograph, 
Alcor:  Reaching for Tomorrow.  I am especially honored when Mr. Ettinger 
groups this latest effort on my part with his own classic, The Prospect of 
Immortality.  Please feel free, as you indicated in your cryonet posting of 
yesterday (message number 18286) to borrow any of my original material to 
advance our common cause.
      While we have no doubt differed on some pertinent issues, I have the 
utmost respect for what Mr. Ettinger has given to all of us.  I look upon 
myself as merely a messenger in the great cause that he so succinctly 
outlined for us in Prospect.  While the new book, quite obviously, was 
written by and in support of an Alcor perspective, there has never been a 
more opportune time for the two leading cryonics organizations to lay the 
groundwork for an exchange (dare I say alliance?), allowing each, either in 
parallel or in unison, to promote and foster the science and the 
discipline, perhaps to even achieve a synergistic beneficial outcome for 
its respective memberships.
      In the meantime, it is my view that positive happenstances which 
affect one of our two organizations will eventually, even if indirectly, 
benefit the other.  Finally, with specific reference to Mr. Ettinger's 
comments, in consideration of how many ideas we have extracted over the 
decades from Prospect, it would seem only fair that you should directly 
benefit from an equal opportunity seizure.

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