X-Message-Number: 24693
From: "Joe Waynick" <>
Subject: To Ben Best and Others
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:16:09 -0700

Ben,

    Thank you for your message. I want you to know that I had no intention
of upsetting or insulting you or your membership with my posting. I also
want you to know that I too am interested in developing a good working
relationship with you. 

    I am afraid I must plead guilty when you say "I have seen you get
caught-up in this mutual recrimination." I am willing to commit to you that
I will not participate in any more point / counter point discussions
concerning our respective organizations. It is an unproductive use of our
resources and fosters divisiveness. Perhaps you and I can regain some of the
lost traction you mentioned since the CryoSummit.

    As far as the comparison page is concerned, my objection is to the page
itself. How can others claim that no comparisons whatsoever should be made
between Alcor and CI and still support a page on the CI website called, of
all things, "Comparisons?" And then justify the hypocrisy by claiming it was
created in "self defense." Why not simply create a page called "The Benefits
of Cryonics Institute." Talk about your strengths, perhaps (if I may be so
bold), what you perceive as notable weaknesses, and why someone may elect to
go with CI. I see no need for a direct mention of Alcor, or any of the many
subtitle comparisons of Alcor pricing, methodology, procedures, and rescue
operations. I will not get into line by line specifics here because any
objective person reading the page will understand what I am saying. If you
want that kind of detail, then lets get on the phone and review the page
together.

    My comment that your personal website "heavily promotes the CI
perspective of cryonics" was meant as just that. After all, you are the
president of CI. Why would it not promote the CI perspective? I made that
statement to illustrate that Alcor does not ban linking to sites that
promote cryonics organizations other than our own. In short, I found nothing
offensive about your website.

    I have no issue with you or CI. I cannot purge every grain of
competitiveness from my nature any more than you can. Nor do I expect to be
attacked simply because I am proud of the organization to which I belong and
openly promote our strengths. With the exception of one emotionally charged
recent Cryonet posting, you have never seen me publicly compare our
organizations and I have no desire to do so. I prefer the climate of
cooperation and mutual respect that I believe we both strive to achieve. I
am also looking forward to discussing with you ways we can mutually support
our respective organizations.

 

--jw

CEO/President

Alcor Life Extension Foundation

 

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The Alcor Life Extension Foundation was founded in 1972 as a non-profit,
tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, and has 64 patients in cryostasis. Alcor
is the world's largest provider of professional cryotransport services with
over 680 members who have pre-arranged for cryopreservation. Alcor's
Emergency CryoTransport System (ECS) is a medical-style rescue network
patterned after the Emergency Medical System (EMS). Alcor CryoTransport
Technicians, as with EMTs and Paramedics on an ambulance, are advised by our
Medical Director and Advisory Board consisting of MDs, PhDs, cryobiologists,
scientists, and other members of the scientific research community who are
Alcor members and/or contract physicians.

 

 



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