X-Message-Number: 6439 Date: 04 Jul 96 11:44:27 EDT From: "Kent, Saul" <> Subject: SCI.CRYONICS Pledging To The Promethius Project The announcement that more than $100,000 a year over a 10-year period has been solicited from a small group of cryonicists for The Promethius Project is, I believe, a great event in the history of cryonics. I have been a longtime advocate of cryonics research and have invested substantial amounts of money in it for many years. In my opinion, The Promethius Project is the most important research project yet set forth in the history of the cryonics movement for the following reasons: 1) It focuses on the brain, which is the critical organ that *must* be preserved adquately for cryonics to work. 2) It aims to raise enough money for a long enough period of time to have a realistic chance of developing a perfected method to preserve the brain. 3) It focuses primarily on vitrification as a means of preserving the brain, which is the method that has been shown to be most promising to date. 4) It aims to utilize the services of the best experts in the world in cryobiology and neurobiology to conduct the research. 5) It is non-partisan. For all these reasons and more, I believe it is *imperative* for *all* cryonics organizations and *all* cryonicists to support The Promethius Project wholeheartedly...with your time, with your expertise, with your enthusiasm, and first and foremost, with your pledges. I know that other organizations have funded, and continue to fund cryonics research. I applaud these efforts and I urge them to continue. However, I also urge these organizations and their members to make pledges to The Promethius Project and to participate in its growth and development. I am one of those who has pledged $10,000 per year for 10 years to The Promethius Project and I expect to pledge more in the future. I have done so even though I am (and will continue) to invest substantially in other types of cryonics and life extension research because I believe that brain cryopreservation research is the single most important type of research we can support today. By doing so, we increase our chances of survival, we increase the credibility of cryonics, and we partcipate in the building of a scientific foundation that will have a truly revolutionary impact on the human race, and the future of intelligent life in the universe. I urge *every* cryonics organization and *every* cryonicist to send in their pledges to The Promethius Project today! ---Saul Kent Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6439