X-Message-Number: 2812
Subject: CRYONICS Reply to Steve
From:  (Charles Platt)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 00:51:01 EDT

I'm a little puzzled by Steve Bridge's response to my posting 
about group affiliations among the people who helped Alcor 
during the recent New York suspension. What I said (or what I 
thought I said) was that a) some people being identified as 
members of Alcor's "team" were, to the best of my knowledge, 
members of CryoCare; and b) in such a situation, I'm happy to 
say that we can expect this kind of cooperation to continue. 

Steve quibbles a bit with point a) (although I recall him 
being present at the last New York meeting where Curtis 
Henderson publicly proclaimed himself to be a member of 
CryoCare). Steve agrees with me on point b). This being so, 
I'm not quite sure where the dispute lies.

In the past, we've been accustomed to thinking of an Alcor 
suspension team as being 100 percent Alcor. Therefore, I felt 
it was reasonable to point out that this time around, some 
CryoCare people were involved. When Alcor people choose to 
help with work done by BioPreservation, I think that's worth 
mentioning, too. 

So far, I have not seen any lack of cooperation at the 
membership level of the various groups. Steve says that 
"relations ... have been competitive and strained," but as 
any reader of CryoNet can see, there's a lot less strife now 
than there was before CryoCare came into being. In this sense 
CryoCare has helped to restore some much needed tranquility, 
and I hope it continues to serve that purpose. 

--Charles Platt

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