X-Message-Number: 6565
Date: 20 Jul 96 03:03:47 EDT
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Prometheus Project - Latest Total

The Prometheus Project:

      Convincingly demonstrated, scientifically proven and published,
      fully reversible brain cryopreservation within 10 years.

Latest Pledge Totals

     As of midnight EDT July 19, 1996, the total of pledges is $149,000.00
per year for each of 10 years. A $1,000.00 per year pledge was received by
private email from an Australian who prefers to remain anonymous. I have
given him the names and email addresses of the other two Australian pledgers
Peter Merel and Daniel Jacobs. Maybe they can get together and start "working
on" the other Aussie's. I'm thinking that maybe sometime soon I'll start some 
intercountry rivalry over how much each can pledge per capita. We've got
Yanks, Canuks, Aussie's and a Frenchman, but we haven't heard anything from
the Brits yet. Today's pledger writes:

>I think Prometheus is an excellent way for the cryonics movement to 
>make some headway, and hopefully will achieve some unity too.  I feel 
>certain that basic research such as this will also have other benefits 
>(e.g. health, scientific, and financial), as well as being a ladder to 
>our main goal of life extension.  With my pledge I also send best 
>wishes for its success and fortune.

>For the moment I would like to remain an anonymous pledger, but please
>do feel free to mention any other detail herein.  I am not currently
>"signed up" for suspension as yet, but plan to do so in the next
>few years.  Being outside the US it is not so easy.


Pledge totals in each category are now:

          10 for $10,000.00 per year for 10 years,
          5 for $5,000.00 per year for 10 years,
          1 for $4,000.00 per year for 10 years,
          1 for $3,000.00 per year for 10 years,
          2 for $2,000.00 per year for 10 years,
          13 for $1,000.00 per year for 10 years.

The 32 pledges total $1,490,000.00 over all ten years.

     It really would be nice to see some more people pledging in the $5K to
$10K range. I *know* that lots of you are making well over $50K per year and
should be able to afford that. Isn't a much improved chance at hundreds of
years of extra life worth that to you? If this project gets funded, it truly
*does* make sense to compare the exchange of a bit of lost value in this life
cycle for the enormous gain in value from the vast number of extra years of a
second life cycle, discounted by the chance, of course. If you really think
about it correctly, and understand that it can actually happen, you have no
rational choice but to pledge a major portion of your present income as I and
several others have done.


-- Paul --

!!!!! REVERSIBLE BRAIN CRYOPRESERVATION *CAN* BE ACHIEVED IN 10 YEARS !!!!!

Paul Wakfer  email:        Voice/Fax:     Pager:
US:     1220 E Washington St #24, Colton, CA 92324 909-481-4433 800-805-2870
Canada: 238 Davenport Rd #240, Toronto, ON M5R 1J6 416-968-6291 416-446-9461
(currently in Canada)


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