X-Message-Number: 6818
From: Brian Wowk <>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:14:57 -0500
Subject: Leary funding

        Carlos Mondragon has now cleared the air concerning the question 
of whether Timothy Leary was accepted as an underfunded member by Alcor.
He was not.  Before Leary was accepted, Alcor solicited and received 
pledges from members like me to help pay for his cryopreservation.  
Counting these pledges, Leary was fully funded.
 
        By this same standard (if this is the standard we agree on), then
CryoCare's discount to Timothy Leary was $1000-- our cryopreservation
administration fee, which we waived.  The remainder of Leary's funding
was covered by donations of money and services that had been pledged by 
numerous people.  Most importantly, there was absolutely NO shortfall in 
his long-term funding.  It would have been the same as any other CryoCare 
patient.
 
        That's not to say that we weren't going to try and benefit
from the case as much as possible.  (That was, after all, the original
intent expressed even by Alcor when my pledge was solicited back in 1988.)
As matters turned out, both Alcor and CryoCare made a serious error
in bending over backwards to accomodate Timothy Leary.  That error is:
NEVER TRY TO FREEZE SOMEONE FOR THE SAKE OF WHO THEY ARE, INSTEAD OF
WHAT THEY WANT.
 
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Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
   http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/

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