X-Message-Number: 26080 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:25:24 -0400 From: Keith Henson <> Subject: Robert Anton Wilson in Hospital I don't know how many RAW fans there are on this list, but I just found out he is in a hospital in Santa Cruz. I don't know how serious, but Bob is 73. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson Several years before I had to escape the US, I tried to set up suspension arrangements for Bob and his wife Arlen. Bob was agreeable but Arlen nixed it. Since she died in 1999 a cryonics organization should be able to sign up Bob Wilson. I have not asked him. Being out of the country puts a damper on such things. Most of you know that Alcor signed up Tim Leary. He went with the now defunct organization when Alcor split some years ago and was lost in 1996 due to cultural insensitivity on the part of a cryonics technician. Besides trying to save a key person in the history of our formative years, PR was a factor. Unfortunately it turned into negative PR for cryonics. If you use Google as a measure, Robert Anton Wilson gets about half as many hits as Timothy Leary so PR from suspending RWA would be substantial. Further, RAW is most appreciated among the class of people likely to sign up. The PR would be pure gravy. My future life would be improved by having RAW alive. I can't afford the whole amount, but pledge $3000 if the rest can be raised some way or the other. Keith Henson PS. Bob Wilson's daughter Luna, was brutally murdered in 1976 when she was 15. Her brain was recovered and is in suspension. http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics9207.txt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26080