X-Message-Number: 22766 From: "Clement, James" <> Subject: Cryonics Research Co. Needs Your Immediate Help! Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:37:28 -0500 This need is time critical and you must act before November 6th! Suspended Animation, Inc. is a cryonics research company that is attempting to start work in Boca Raton. The operation has been setting up for a while, but recent publicity centering on the cryonics industry has led to a concerted effort by small special interest groups to block Suspended Animation, Inc. from operating. If successful at this late stage, it would most likely lead to the closure of the company. * Visit the Suspended Animation, Inc. website <http://suspendedanimationinc.org> Without the efforts of research and development groups like Suspended Animation, Inc., cryonics technology cannot improve. Without improvement, cryonics will remain a niche industry. A LETTER FROM SUSPENDED ANIMATION'S CEO, DAVID SHUMAKER Dear Cryonics Enthusiast, As the President of Suspended Animation, Inc. I am asking you to help us win a very important battle, a battle critical to cryonics in Florida as well as the entire cryonics community. As you may know, we are a new cryonics company located in Boca Raton, FL. We began operations last year with funding support from the Life Extension Foundation. We have been instrumental in the cryosuspension of three Floridians and a similar number of cryonicists elsewhere in the country. Our primary goal is to perform research that will enhance cryonics through whole body vitrification and vastly reduced previtrification ischemic damage. But, we also provide you the first response capability that may make the difference between a good resuscitation prognosis and oblivion. SA is the only cryonics organization who plans to perform substantive research to improve both control of ischemia and reduction of cryosuspension damage. 95% of our efforts are directed to research to improve cryonics technology. SA is the only company now providing professional Standby Based Transport to ensure you get immediate professional care from the moment of pronouncement. Lastly, we are the only organization proposing to provide whole body vitrification. We welcome you to look over our website and view how we are making a substantial impact on the industry and how we can be of service to Florida cryonicists. We are in a crisis at this moment brought on by the pending refusal of Boca Raton to grant us occupancy and building permits and by the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers who demand that we become a licensed mortuary. Unless we can reverse the Boca Raton licensing problem, an entire two year's worth of effort will be wasted as we are forced out of our facility and must seek another place from which to operate, if we can. As I am sure you know, no cryonics organization has a lot of money to waste and this will come close to killing the entire operation. If we do not win in our battle with the State over becoming a licensed mortuary, cryonics will for all practical purposes be prohibited in Florida - yes I mean it - forbidden. Mortuaries are forbidden to treat patients except in the mortuary, thus all of the bedside anti-ischemia treatment vital to ensuring brain tissue viability is prohibited. This is only one roadblock created by the State's licensing requirement; there are many others. We desperately need your help in two areas. First, there is a Boca Raton Planning and Zoning meeting on Thursday Nov 6 at 6:00 PM, in the Boca Raton City Hall that will debate our occupancy and building permits. The auditorium has 300 seats and to the extent they are filled with cryonicists, those in power can hear a voice for approving our permits. Furthermore, individuals can sign up to be heard for five minutes. If the seats are filled with animal rights activists and those who hate anything new or unknown, then only their voices will be heard as they have been so far. We really need you. Unless there is a groundswell of support, they are going to recommend to City Council that our permits be denied purely because we are a cryonics organization. In addition to your help at the meeting we would greatly appreciate it if you would send the attached letter (or one similar to it) to the Boca Raton City Council at the address below to encourage them to vote for us when the measure comes up. These guys all respond to the voters, and those who voice their preference are the only ones heard Boca Raton City Council 201 West Palmetto Park Road Boca Raton, Florida 33432 Will you help? Please visit the following links below and send emails regarding the importance of the research that Suspended Animation is conducting and how it is needed by the growing cryonics community in southern Florida. Send an email to the Mayor of Boca Raton Steven Abrams from his web page <http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/city/Mayor.cfm> Send an email to the Deputy Mayor of Boca Raton Susan Whelchel from her web page <http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/city/Council1.cfm> Send an email to Council Member Susan Haynie from her web page <http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/city/Council4.cfm> Send an email to Council Member David Freudenberg from his web page <http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/city/Council3.cfm> Send an email to Council Member Bill Hager from his web page <http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/city/Council2.cfm> Send an email to City Manager Leif Ahnell from his web page <http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/city/message.cfm> You can find a sample letter below on this web page and on our website. Please send all your friends to our website and ask them to copy, paste and send the letter also. Have them send emails, make phone calls, anything that ensures SA is not stopped in furthering the very important research being done in cryonics. This is vitally important for all cryonics members independent of your membership organization. We are fighting for our company and the right for cryonics to exist in Florida. This is a matter of life and death for us and you. Sincerely, David Shumaker SAMPLE LETTER TO THE BOCA RATON CITY COUNCIL Boca Raton City Council 201 West Palmetto Park Road Boca Raton, Florida 33432 Dear Councilperson: I am in favor of further research into the science of cryonics and the provision of cryonics services to those who want them. I strongly support the development of the Suspended Animation facility in Boca Raton, as an important link in developing this technology. Furthermore, their research not only supports cryonics, but also emergency medicine in general. I vote and am vocal in support of the causes in which I believe. I note that in a recent poll by the Palm Beach Post 44% of hundreds of respondents answered "yes" to the proposition: "If a cryonics lab were to come to Boca Raton, would you consider having your body frozen after your death?" Needless to say, finding 44% of the public supporting such a proposition mitigates heavily in favor of approving it. In this case 44% not only approve of cryonics, but suggest that they would be interested in using cryonics services themselves. This sends a very clear message about this new and upcoming medical technology. Your constituents ARE interested in having Suspended Animation, Inc located in Boca Raton, and they will remember those that might deny them its availability. There are a vocal few who abhor anything new or believe that science should stand still rather than perform needed research on rats. There are those of us who remember the good old days as they were - polio, 50 year life expectancy, and so on. Please don't stop the very important research that SA is conducting. It is the same type of research that made yesterday's seemingly impossible today's common occurrence. "You can never sew on a severed arm and make it work! You can never take a heart from one person and put it in another! You will never make an artificial heart work. If you have been under water for 45 minutes you cannot be revived." A.G. Edwards & Sons' outgoing and incoming e-mails are electronically archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. We cannot accept orders for transactions or other similar instructions through e-mail. We cannot ensure the security of information e-mailed over the Internet, so you should be careful when transmitting confidential information such as account numbers and security holdings. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22766