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.


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