X-Message-Number: 5473
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 18:41:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Ben Best <>
Subject: Non-profit cryonics organizations

     Non-profit status does not necessarily create disincentives for
an organization to receive funds without delivering service. A salaried
employee of a non-profit organization prefers to see the organization 
strengthened to ensure the salary is continued or can increase. Moreover,
the employee would rather have the organization receive income without
the employee having to do work -- other things being equal. Things that
might not be equal are professionalism on the part of the employee and
an idealistic commitment by the employee to the goals of the non-profit
organization.

    For a non-profit *cryonics* organization the situation is not quite
the same. In this case the employees (or volunteers) will be concerned
that they themselves may receive the same level of service that they 
deliver. This could be an argument for having the employees of cryonics
organizations be cryonicists. But where non-cryonicist employees are 
supervised by cryonicists, and/or motivated by professionalism, this is 
less a matter of concern.

                            -- Ben Best ()


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