X-Message-Number: 23587 From: Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:41:14 EST Subject: John Henry Williams speculation/fact re: insurance Hello, Dear Cryoneters, This is Rudi Hoffman from Port Orange, FL. I read with concern and shock that John Henry Williams "died" (?) of blood cancer a few days ago. To respond to speculations on Cryonet and news sources re: "Is John Henry at ALCOR?" I have this factual information to add. I made considerable effort to contact John Henry when the Ted Williams controversy was in full swing, to try and sell him some affordable cryonics life insurance. (No pun intended on "Swing".) The upshot of this was a contact with his attorney who allegedly conveyed my offer to John Henry. Unfortunately, perhaps, John Henry either refused my offer or did not get the message from his attorney. Although his attorney was quite cordial, so it is reasonable to believe he put my message through. However, the full picture has now expanded, with the outcome of John Henry's leukemia. If JHW did indeed HAVE leukemia for several years, or even many years, he would have been uninsurable. Given the normal progression time of the disease as I understand it, this is a reasonable speculation. If he was trying to keep this fact quiet, he would have known that trying to get life insurance would be unworkable, and this factor may have influenced him to not contact me. (Lurkers and those without their financing for cryonics in place, PLEASE take note that people can become uninsurable in their thirties...the time to get your life insurance is when you DON'T need it!) This luekemia is even a possible factor in how TED was motivated to sign up in the first place. Anyway, I TRULY hope John Henry WAS able to make arrangements at ALCOR. It is my understanding that he was making very little money in the minor league professional baseball capacity he was engaged in, and money is a definite factor in handling one's cryonics arrangements. Does anyone know, and have the authority/guts to provide "Hard data" about John Henry Williams and ALCOR? This could be a chance to turn some bad Public Relations into golden and positive public relations. Kind, Professional Regards to all, Yours for Centuries, Rudi Hoffman CFP CLU cc to Jennifer Chapman, membership director at ALCOR Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23587