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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:39:20 EDT
Subject: "City Link" article

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City Link is a weekly magazine of "News, Arts, and Entertainment" based in 
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The issue of June 5-11 has cryonics as the cover 
story, by Colleen Dougher. It is one of the longest and most careful pieces I 
have seen in a periodical. The writer digs up most of the dirt, including 
Chatsworth and Ruddell, but it isn't a hatchet job.

Floridians interviewed included David Shumaker, Gil Schaerer, Betty Schaerer, 
Ed Schaerer, and Prof. Raphael Haftka.

David Shumaker, CEO of the new company, at first called The Door Into Summer, 
now called Suspended Animation Inc., is reported as saying that SSI 
registered with Florida's Division of Corporations last month, has bought 
$850,000 worth of equipment [from Mike Darwin, according to previous 
information], and plans to lease a building in Broward County or Palm Beach 
County within four months [after which, according to previously announced 
intentions, the plan is to develop and test improved cryopreservation 
methods].

Mr. Shumaker is also reported as saying that SSI will focus on whole-body, 
because people don't want to be decapitated, and will pay more attention to 
near-need and at-need prospective patients. Also, that patients subjected to 
any current procedure must rely on future technology for revival. 

The article also says there is not yet an agenda for the "CryoSummit" 
scheduled for Michigan in August, which will be attended by people from CI, 
Alcor, ACS, and SSI. Actually, there is a preliminary agenda.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org


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