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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:07:09 EST
Subject: "CI's 44th"

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A writer complains that the CI web site does not contain Ben Best's article 
on "CI's 44th patient." 

   www.benbest.com/cryonics/toronto.html> 
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First of all, the Toronto patient mentioned by Ben was # 43. #44 came later.

Secondly, Ben's article will appear in the upcoming issue of The Immortalist, 
and will appear also on our web site in due course. 

As for the complaint about a dearth of information on CI activities, perhaps 
I should point out that activity is one thing, and information about it is 
another. Currently CI--and I suspect also Alcor--has so much activity going 
on that relatively little time or energy is left to talk about it, especially 
in venues of marginal importance, and more especially in areas where 
culminating events have not occurred. 

As an example, CI research on a new approach to vitrification is proceeding 
apace, with encouraging results, but is at least several months from 
culmination, with patent issues involved, so there is very little we can 
usefully or appropriately say about it now. 

As another example, there are many issues of CI policy that are being 
discussed by the Board members and other key people, but to open the 
discussion to other venues would be primarily a waste of time and effort, or 
even counterproductive.

Instant and continuous gratification is something we will have to forgo.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org

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