X-Message-Number: 4497 Date: 11 Jun 95 17:34:34 EDT From: Saul Kent <> Subject: Funding For Research I agree with Charles Platt about the relative failure of cryonicists to fund cryonics research. I have found it frustrating for years. As far as Bob Ettinger's comments on the subject: I agree with Bob that no one should "impoverish himself" by contributing to cryonics research. My frustration is with cryonicists who can well afford to support research that "might well yield hugely disproportionate rewards". I would go further by stating that, in my opinion, there is an *excellent* chance that easily affordable support for cryonics research *will*, in fact, yield "hugely disproportionate rewards". As far as Robin Helweg-Larsen's comments: I agree that, in general, urging people to "invest" their money in research is a better strategy than urging them to "donate" money for research, although I don't yet have evidence that this distinction is especially significant for *cryonics* research. My fundraising proposal for brain cryopreservation research is not yet complete. One reason for this is that I am spending most of my time making money myself. The proposal will be completed as soon as I have enough time to do so. When my proposal is complete, I will make some effort to see to it that everyone in Cryonics (and a few people on the periphery of Cryonics) who can afford to invest substantial funds in cryonics research receives a copy of it. Unless this proposal is successful, I expect it will be the last time I will spend any significant time trying to persuade others to invest their money in cryonics research. I have found it *much* easier to make money and then to invest some of it in cryonics research than to persuade *others* to invest their money in cryonics research. Perhaps that will change. We will see. ---Saul Kent Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4497