X-Message-Number: 27510 From: Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:40:59 EST Subject: Thanks to Randy Wicker for promoting WSJ article, perhaps the best PR to date In a message dated 1/22/2006 5:00:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, writes: Message #27504 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:23:56 -0500 From: Randolfe Wicker <> Subject: Publicity breakthrough in Wall Street Journal! Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Two or three years ago, I attempted to interest Antonio Regalado, a science reporter for the Wall Street Journal, into doing an article on cryonics and the Immortality movement. When he asked if I had any ideas for "an angle", I suggested Rudi Hoffman's efforts to help people create cryonic trusts, gave him some cryonics publications and sent him some postings from Cryonet. Rudi Hoffman responding.... My thanks and the thanks of the cryonics community go to Randolfe Wicker, for helping Antonio Regalado stay the course on the Cryonics Trust Article in the Wall Street Journal. By now we have all seen and read this several times. In short, while not perfect, it is some of the best PR cryonics has had in a long time, it would seem to me. Antonio Regalado and I talked on several occasions...and I liked and trusted him. But there is always more than a bit of healthy paranoia in dealing with the press. And this perhaps goes double when the subject is cryonics. Mr. Regalado was kind enough to write me an email, apologizing that my name and that of James Halperin were not mentioned in the article, due to space considerations. I wrote him and told him I understood (and I do) and thanked him for having the courage and perseverance to stay with this article. While the "jury is still out" regarding the effect of this article, I think it is a great start to a bright new year for some breakthroughs in cryonics marketing, to be hopefully followed soon by breakthroughs in research. Kind Regards, For Centuries, Rudi Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP CLU Board Member Financial Planning Association fpafla.org Board Member Salvation Army salvationarmy.org Member Alcor Life Extension Foundation alcor.org Certified Financial Planner(TM) CFP Board of Standards Member Libertarian Party libertarianparty.org Member National Rifle Association nra.org Member World Transhumanist Association http://transhumanism.org/ World's Leading Cryonics Insurance Provider rudihoffman.com Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27510