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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:12:58 EST
Subject: TDIS

TDIS Comments (Sent to Cryonet and CI directors)

Thanks to Saul Kent, Bill Faloon, and David Shumaker for the operating 
plan/budget for The Door Into Summer project (TDIS). As I read it, some of 
the elements include the following.

TDIS will be a for-profit company which will, among other things, perform 
"suspensions" or freezings or vitrifications (both whole-body and neuro) for 
members of cryonics organizations, who will then be stored long term at those 
organizations. 

It will also provide equipment and guidelines for cryonics organizations to 
do the suspensions themselves, using TDIS technology on a fee/license basis. 

The first phase of operation is estimated to take about a year, and will 
develop and demonstrate a capability to do cryopreservation with 
vitrification.

Initial operating cost (overhead) will be roughly $600,000 per year. Pricing 
will be a compromise between cost and affordability. Meeting costs will 
depend on expanding demand or/and generating revenues or supporting funds 
from "originators, investors, or cryonics organizations" or/and other 
activities.  

Price for a vitrification cryopreservation performed by TDIS in Florida, 
exclusive of transportation costs and the charges of the cryonics 
organization providing the long term storage, will be around $40,000 for 
either neuro or whole body. If this holds up, it would mean that the cost to 
a CI member of whole body preparation by TDIS followed by storage at CI would 
be around $70,000 plus transportation.

TDIS Board of Directors will consist of William Faloon, Mike Darwin, Saul 
Kent, CEO (David Shumaker?), and three independent outside directors.

If I have misread any of this, no doubt someone will correct me.

Again, thanks to those involved and best wishes for the Florida meeting 
Saturday, at which I expect a few of our people will attend.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org

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