X-Message-Number: 26807 From: Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:19:45 EDT Subject: Re: question re: timing of suspension vs. funding In a message dated 8/13/2005 5:00:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, writes: Message #26804 From: Subject: Cryonics Institute's 69th Patient Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:38:17 US/Eastern Shortly after 6am on Friday morning the Cryonics Institute received a call from the son of an unfunded CI Member informing us that his Member mother had just been pronounced dead. Within 13 hours we had received $28,000 and the patient. The patient is currently cooling to liquid nitrogen temperature. This is CI's 69th patient, and the first patient CI has cryopreserved in 2005. More details will be released in THE IMMORTALIST. http://www.cryonics.org/info.html -- Ben Best, President, Cryonics Institute Hello, Ben, Thank you for above information on CI's 69th patient. Regarding funding and suspension issues, may I respectfully ask a question? If a CI member is unfunded, what are the mechanics of funding at deanimation? Does CI wait to confirm funding before suspension protocols? Based on some conversations you and I have had, I know this is challenge you are working on. But it would seem to me that someone who has some idea they are terminal would get their funding "act" together PRIOR to actual pronouncement. But we know how it is human nature to procrastinate, and takes tremendous rational discipline to solidify all cryonics arrangements early, as most of those reading this message have done. My point in asking is not to ask embarrassing questions in a public forum. But to provide you a platform to further motivate those "putative signups" with CI who do NOT have their funding in place. (Irrespective of whether we call them "cryonauts, cryoneers, unfunded cryonicists, or just plain half-butt cryonicists!:)) Especially if they are constantly and forcefully reminded that the quality and timing of their suspension is at risk, perhaps more will get their funding issue handled early, when it not a time sensitive crisis. On a separate posting, I will be announcing an enormous NEW funding option, suitable for both CI and ALCOR. This will hopefully open a new era of super reliable and hassle free cryonic funding. It is exciting enough, and has enough details, that it deserves its own dedicated posting. This posting is about encouraging ANYONE with serious cryonics intentions to get PROACTIVE and SERIOUS about putting SOLID funding in place. And doing this BEFORE it becomes a life threatening, desperate, time sensitive crisis. To a long and happy life for all, (possibly excepting authoritarian kleptocrats), Rudi Hoffman Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26807