X-Message-Number: 4441 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: Re: CryoNet #4428 - #4432 Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 13:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Hi again! Re melatonin: Yes, my book has a chapter on it and its effects on lifespan. Re marketing: a funny sad story. Very early in my own involvement in cryonics, when I was living and working in Australia, I ran across a marketing person who said that (for a fee) he would be happy to help us work out how we can sell cryonics. (There was me and one other person, then). So I reached into my own pocket and undertook to pay him. After some delay, I received his report, which consisted almost entirely of platitudes. When I pressed him about it (hard) he basically said that he had looked at the problem in detail but didn't have the vaguest idea of what might work. But of course he presented his bill anyway. If David Stodolsky wishes to first hunt up a marketing expert, then pay that expert for his ideas on how to market cryonics, he is welcome to do so. I suggest he spend his money on something more useful, such as a milkshake every afternoon, but then it's his money. And more seriously, as cryonicists WE ARE PIONEERS. And because of that, it's absurd to think that we will or anyone else will know just what to do and how to deal with the problems we meet in the new territory we have entered. Best and long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4441