X-Message-Number: 20017 Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 21:08:29 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Swayze Fund completion and beyond To all my cryonics friends, First let me apologize for being tardy. My internet went down and I didn't get Friday's news till Sunday. It is most excellent news to hear that my fund is complete. It sure takes a load off but I won't let it cause me to rest upon my laurels. Now even more than before is the time to let the world know the kindness and generosity the lives (emphasis on LIVES) within our community. Now we can say with certainty not just speculation that our community seeks to include all and is in no way a scam for how can a scam be when charity is given. There is a long long list of thank you's and since some donors were anonymous I won't list everyone, you know who you are. Thank you all each and every one so very very much. One exception needs mention and that is Robert for not only kick starting my fund but for the whole cryonics idea in the first place. Had he not put it forth when he did it might have missed our generation and that would have left us on the funeral pyre of history. I don't need to worry over probabilities. It either will work or it won't. For me I believe strongly it will work. If it doesn't it was well worth the effort and it will have said something about us and I believe will be responsible for changing humanity and for changing history. The immortality meme is an old one but only with us does it reach plausibility. I had hoped that the fund would exceed the amount Robert called for so as to reimburse his large donation to some degree. This is because before me it was part of his estate that would have gone to CI and therefore was meant to benefit everyone, not just CI members but through future advancements in the technology certainly all our community. So I had a small hope that CI would recover that amount to some degree as I don't wish to be even a small drag upon our progress. I will now seek ways to recover some of that myself. If I live to see my 45th birthday next July 10th I might be able to get a small 20 year term policy that could never have covered my suspension but might help all of us as a small donation to CI. There seems to have just become available in my state small life policies, death benefit really, for which one can't be turned down for health issues for those aged 45 and up. I'm not certain it will work but I will find out. Of course it might be moot if my state intends to recover my estate, amounting to my pc, stereo and TV, bed and some books LOL!, as part of their recovery policy for long term care provided by welfare. I'll have to look into that. If it is so than it won't be worth trying and I'd be better off just sending something to CI monthly for them to invest. At any rate I urge everyone to donate extra to your cryonics provider and even to the 'not your' cryonics provider... hedge your bets! But please please don't bet against us or give anyone of moneyed interest a big cash cause to even consider to get in our way. With the six degrees of separation theory those persons or company would likely know someone in position to make it difficult for us. Here's a thought, suppose we did something the opposite direction so to encourage favor in our direction. For instance, suppose we put together a fund to provide suspension for say a congressperson or a senator, would that be considered a bribe? Just a thought. Sure would get publicity! James -- MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ A COLLECTION of photos of me and some of my artwork: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292752723&code=2039335&mode=invite A RADIO INTERVIEW on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality": http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3728 A RELIGION I actually recommend: http://uk.geocities.com/venturist2001/index.html A FAVORITE quote: Last lines of the first Star Trek the Next Generation movie. Capt. Picard: "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived, after all Number One, we're only mortal." Will Ryker: "Speak for yourself captain, I intend to live forever!" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20017