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Subject: CRYONICS Re: Research Directions
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:19:46 -0700 (PDT)

Steve Harris <>:

snip snip...

>
>     I am not happy about the 2% per year risk of a major Earth
> quake which we presently face where we are in California, and if
> I'd had my way I would have arranged to be perfused here in
> California at Biopreservation, and be stored in Arizona at Alcor. 
> Unfortunately, since decisions by Dave Pizer and a few others
> deprived me (and everyone else) of this option, I have been
> forced to make decisions involving tradeoffs.  

You make it sound like an injustice. Well, I'm sure there's a VERY good 
reason for Dave Pizer's decision, maybe it has something to do with Saul 
Kent's memo I posted yesterday... Care to comment on that, I'm all ears?

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>
>     Finally, I was a bit surprised by the general venom of Dave
> Pizer's letter:  "Dr. Harris is a lot better at building straw
> men than good relationships in the cryonics community."  
> Actually, my "relationships with the cryonics community"
> and indeed with people in general, are fine, thanks.  It's only
> my relationship with the people who recently decided they had to
> gain total control of The Alcor Life Extension Foundation which
> have soured.  [I have a revelation for you, Dave: this relatively
> small group of persons are not the "cryonics community"; they are
> only your cronies down there at Alcor.]  

Now that's totally uncalled for, Steve! But one thing I'd like to get 
straight here, you say: "...my relationship with the people who recently 
decided they had to gain total control of The Alcor Life Extension Foundation 
which have soured", but it has been my understanding that Saul Kent *denied* 
trying to take control of Alcor. So what's the REAL story here?? I think 
you're just playing loose with your terminology in an effort to discredit 
Alcor, and I don't think your flames are doing any of us any good. The same 
could be said about my posts, I'm sure, but I'm just compelled to ring that 
warning bell when I smell trouble. I could just as easily say that you and 
your cronies at CryoCare tried to get control of Alcor, but that doesn't 
change the fact that there's a real and honest disagreement among people 
of good will over what constitutes acceptable risks to the helpless patients 
that an organization doing cryonics can take.

Ever forward,

David

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