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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18293