X-Message-Number: 7014 Subject: Moving slowly closer to signing up... Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 14:04:38 -0500 From: Will Dye <> I'm the guy who's wife is opposed to cryonics. I've decided to take my chances and try to change her mind, rather than divorce her and sign up now. I'm making slow progress, I think. Anyway, something came up that I felt I should tell you about. I've just renewed my driver's license, and on the back of Nebraska licenses they have a small area for notes about organ donations. I knew that if I got signed up in the next year or so, I should have something there about contacting a cryonics provider. But I have not selected a provider, and I didn't even have a list of their names & how they wanted to be contacted. Finally, I remembered one phone number: 1-800-TOP-CARE. I must have seen it on Brian Wowk's .sig or something. So under the title "Organ(s) Donated:" on my license, it reads "CALL 1-800-TOP-CARE IMMEDIATELY". I realize that CryoCare can't suspend me without funding, and I'm not committing to a provider yet. Bottom lines: 1) CryoCare may get the unhappy cadaver of a cryonicist who didn't quite make it. Use it for research, if that's useful for you. Maybe Prometheus will be looking for volunteers. If you're awash in money (ha!), or make a successful last-minute plea to my wife, you obviously have permission to suspend the critical parts of me, as funding permits. Otherwise, use the organs to save others, and give the rest back for burial. Shed no tears for me, and don't feel guilty about burying an unfunded patient. I knew the risks. Unlike most cryoncists, I really don't mind being mortal. I just wanted to get (and give) the most that I could out of this life. 2) It helps to have an easy-to-remember phone number. :-) --Will -- William L. Dye (Will Dye) | It's O.K. to be anal retentive, as long as all | of the anuses that you retain are meticulously -or- | sorted, arranged, categorized, & cross-indexed. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7014