X-Message-Number: 5293 Date: 29 Nov 95 10:14:47 EST From: "Kent, Saul" <> Subject: Service At The Life Extension Foundation I apologize to Bob Ettinger and anyone else who may have experienced poor service recently when ordering products from The Life Extension Foundation. We greatly appreciate your support and hope you will continue ordering products from The Foundation. This month we were hit by the closest thing to the "singularity" we've ever experienced. Three things happened at once. We had just started taking orders in Florida, which had previously been taken in Arizona, our winter sale had just begun, and the TV show HARD COPY ran two episodes (in a week) about our aphrodisiac NATURAL SEX, which caused something which I can only describe as "Natural Sex Mania". As a result, we were forced to hire a good number of new people very quickly and our experienced employees have been put under extreme pressure. We're doing everything we can to make things better while, at the same time, seeking to take advantage of new opportunities. The money I'm making now can be attributed directly to the motivation of cryonics and my desire for physical immortality. I had no such drive before I got involved in cryonics and for years my involvement in cryonics impeded my ability to make money. It was only after I realized that cryonics wasn't going to grow as fast as I wanted it to, that neither the government nor private industry was likely to provide adequate funding for life extension research, and that no "high rollers" were likely to speed things up significantly, that I started to become serious about making money. This did not occur until the early 1980s when I was in my early 40s. Our ability to make money suffered a major setback in February 1987 when the U.S. Food & Drug Administration tried to crush us like a bug. It is only in recent years, as our fight against annihilation by the federal government has begun to bear fruit, that we've been able to devote more time to business affairs. Our ability to make money also suffered setbacks when I became involved in various cryonics affairs such as the fight against the California authorities to keep my mother (and other Alcor patients) frozen, the fight (with his relatives) over Dick Jones' estate, the splintering of Alcor, and the subsequent formation of CryoCare. In the last two years, however--feeling the pressure of time and aging (dying)--I've been devoting most of my time to making money and investing some of that money in cryonics and life extension research. ---Saul Kent Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5293