X-Message-Number: 29618
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: david pizer <>
Subject: follow up on ideas to increase membership in cryonics movemen...

John de Rivaz said:

"Cryonics is a subject that is particularly vulnerable
to that, because 
leaders have to take into consideration their existing
patients. If a
 lawyer 
out to make a name and some money for himself sees a
weakness in
 anything a 
cryonics organisation is doing, he will find a client
willing to jump
 in and 
sue, thereby closing the cryonics organisation."



David Pizer's thoughts on the above.


John has mentioned the main reason that Alcor and CI
are hesitant to promote themselves - increased risk to
the patients.  A cryonics company has a problem in
that the more business it does the more the risk of a
lawsuit somewhere along the line.  Also the more one
brags about their company the greater the risk that an
evil person can sue if they think they can prove the
company did not live up to its claims.

Also, being that "doing cryonics" is something that
probably takes a hundred years (how long a patient may
have to remain in a frozen, vulnerable and helpless
state) that is a pretty long time compared with doing
almost any other type of business.  So the risk never
goes away.


But there is a way to promote cryonics and reduce the
risk to the specific company doing the promoting
somewhat.  Rather than promote your company as most
companies do, (Ford, GM, Coca Cola, WalMart, etc),
Alcor and CI merely have to promote the *idea* of
cryonics.  As the idea of cryonics becomes more
popular in the world each company (Alcor and CI) have
a 50% chance of getting any new business (because they
are the only two companies freezing and storing people
in a serious way at present).

So they don't say good things about themselves as a
company  but they fund other organizations and
independent people who will say good things about the
concept of cryonics and or do things to make new
prospects want to opt for cryonics.   


Probably the number one thing that Alcor and CI could
do would be to underwrite the cost of people writing
favorable books and articles about cryonics.  Books,
TV plots, movies, anything that would promote cryonics
as a good thing and make more people want it.

Actually, Alcor and CI would not have to fund this
effort, a bunch of cryoncists could get together from
both groups and raise money and work together
independent from Alcor and CI to promote the concept
of cryonics.


David Pizer 


       


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