X-Message-Number: 26100
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:15:02 -0400
From: Keith Henson <>
Subject: Re: RAW

At 09:00 AM 27/04/05 +0000, anthony <> wrote:

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 >> 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.

 >I've looked online but can't find any news stories verifying this: could
 >you provide a link?

No.  But if you want I can forward you private email about his situation.

 >> 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.

 >If RAW was interested, wouldn't he have already made arrangements?

There is a major difference between being interested and having the 
considerable funding needed when you are 73.

 >> 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.

 >What does this mean? Could you explain how Leary was lost?

No.  There were postings about it at the time.  My opinion about what 
happened is extremely biased.  Perhaps even viciously biased.

 >> 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.

 >Let's try and contact RAW first to see if he wants suspension. Any leads?

I have contacts who can talk to him as well as his email and phone 
numbers.  Will pass to anyone who wants to take a lead in this project.

 >> 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.

 >Who's suspending the brain now?

It was originally ACS so I presume CI now has Luna.

 >I've read RAW and like him, so thanks in advance for answering my questions.

 >Anthony

Any time.

Keith Henson

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