X-Message-Number: 2220
Subject: CRYONICS Money to build cold room
From:  (Charles Platt)
Date: Sun, 09 May 93 00:41:02 EDT


As I understand it, Brian is suggesting that the cold room 
could be financed using the Patient Care Fund. His logic is 
simple enough: the cold room would be used for the care of 
patients, and that's what the fund is for.

Assuming that Alcor has perhaps $1.5 million in the fund when 
the room is built, the fund would be depleted by about 10 
percent by the costs of room-building. 

What worries me, however, is that the money in the Patient 
Care Fund was put there to care for (and revive?) existing 
patients in dewars. These patients cannot be moved out of 
their dewars, because it has been generally agreed (as I 
understand it) that transition from LN2 to -130 is not a 
great idea. Therefore, the old patients would be subsidizing 
the construction of a room to house new patients. 

It seems to me that the only way this is defensible is if the 
funding from the new patients is gradually used to "pay back" 
the Patient Care Fund for the old patients. In fact, I 
suggest there should be two Patient Care Funds, one for 
patients in dewars, the other for patients in the cold room, 
so there can be no misunderstanding about the allocation of 
funds. 

I would be interested to hear other people's thoughts on 
this, because there is not much point in speculating on how 
to build a cold room unless people are willing to come up 
with the money.

--Charles Platt 

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