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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:55:57 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #18942 - #18944

I strongly agree with Mike Darwin's assessment of 'Six Feet Under.' and 
suggest it is worth the price of an HBO subscription.  You get 'Soprano's in 
for the bargain, an absorbing show but of less relevance to us cryonauts.  I 
would suggest that the importance of 'Six Feet Under' for us is the 
demystification of death, dead bodies, and the funeral business in general.  
One of the many reasons we have so much trouble with recruitment is that we 
are seen as being in the 'death' business, a mysterious world where only 
creeps choose to go voluntarily. [Notice, for example, how GWB and friends 
have relabeled inheritance taxes as 'the death tax' to make it more 
horrifying and thus an obvious bad thing.] 
Now that I have your attention, I am wondering why the great debates we were 
having about marketing and how to grow our numbers have been absent in recent 
weeks?
I strongly believe that the big issue for us is still numbers, numbers in 
suspension, numbers paying in, numbers comitted, numbers favorably 
interested.  Have we run out of ideas? Have we run out of energy?  Increasing 
the odds, another current topic, is also about numbers.  Whatever the odds 
are at any given time, they get better with more people involved, more people 
willing to support research and development, more people supporting expanded 
and improved facilities in more places, and so on. Let's have some more buzz 
on that.  Ron Havelock

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