X-Message-Number: 456
From: Kevin Q. Brown
Subject: Reference & Introductory Messages 
Date: 19 Sep 1991

Subject: CRYONICS Reference & Introductory Messages

Some of the cryonics mailing list messages remain useful long after they
are posted.  Others, even though they may be well-written and well reasoned,
are strictly topical or are part of a discussion distributed across several
messages.  I just quickly scanned the archives of the cryonics mailing list
for examples of good reference information, in particular, information that
would be useful for people new to cryonics.  Appended below is my first
draft of such a list.  A cursory glance at this list should show my bias;
I tend to like my own postings!

#    LINES/CHARS    DATE       AUTHOR / SUBJECT
-    -----------------------   ----------------
50   38/2311	Dec 29, 1988   Brown / Death of Death in Cryonics
157  172/10405	Feb 12, 1990   Bridge / Introduction to Cryonics (Revised) 
286  229/9087	Mar 19, 1991   Brown / Cryonics Organization List (Revised) 
351  37/1317	Jun 17, 1991   Hixon / Cryonics : Reaching For Tomorrow 
431  119/6907	Sep 8, 1991    Brown/Jellinghaus / Unbounding the Future 

If you would like to see other messages or other topics on this list,
then let's hear from you!  In particular, we could use a good message
on using life insurance for funding cryonic suspension.  Several messages
have mentioned aspects of this, what to look for and what to watch out for,
but we have no single, up-to-date reference message that covers it all.
(Of course, inflation and tax resistant alternatives to funding with life
insurance would be useful, too.)  An update to the Oct. 10, 1988 message
#28 on "theories of aging" would be useful.  Finally, I listed message #50,
my treatment of Brian Wowk's essay on the "Death of Death in Cryonics"
because I believe that the concept it presents is important.  My rendition
of it is not necessarily the best, though, so if Brian Wowk (or someone else)
would like to write an update, then that would be appreciated.

Oh yes, if you want to receive a copy of one or more of these messages,
just let me know.  Sending an email message to me with a subject line of
the form:
   CRYOMSG xxx yyy ... zzz
where "xxx", "yyy", and "zzz" are message numbers will either result in
them being sent to you automatically (if the software is behaving) or,
failing that, telling me that you want me to send them to you.

                              Kevin Q. Brown
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