X-Message-Number: 7553
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #7546 - #7551
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:02:56 -0800 (PST)

Hi Jim!

Your discussion looks pretty good to me. Some might find it a little long,
but then if you have it as an Appendix no one HAS to read it.

One point, maybe two, both of which concern me personally but aren't really
criticisms of your discussion:

1. I put out a newsletter discussing on and reporting the scientific issues
   involved in cryonics. Over the last several years, it's ended up
   concentrating on memory; cryobiology hasn't done all that much.

   This newsletter originated from a science column I wrote in CRYONICS for 
   many years. As the relevant news on memory increased in volume, it
   simply became impossible for CRYONICS to print it. I still write for
   CRYONICS too, of course.

2. I feel that the LIFE EXTENSION SOCIETY should get some kind of mention.
   It was founded by Saul Kent and Bill Faloon, and sells lots of drugs and
   other substances which may increase your lifespan. We don't have to be 
   so shy that we don't try more than a little Vitamin E.

3. I have also put together a book, A GUIDE TO ANTIAGING DRUGS, which 
   discusses all those drugs for which at least one animal experiment on
   normally healthy animals produced an increase in lifespan. Ron Klatz,
   of A4M, liked it. It's written for consumers, with no attempt to sell
   any particular drug, and I also discuss bad effects of each one, 
   suggestions about those who should NOT take it, etc. Naturally I take
   some but not all of the drugs discussed.

   It's put together in a loose-leaf notebook so that it can be periodically
   updated and thus never become outmoded. There've been 3 small updates
   so far; I am looking into adding a chapter on another drug, together 
   with a few other changes.

But really, I thought that the part of your email that I could read was
pretty good. 

			Best and long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson

PS: Are you saying that when you decided to write your book you had little
contact with cryonics, and learned about us while writing it? --- and then
ended up joining? If so that makes you unusual. I've spoken to many many
writers who want to do an article on cryonics, given each one lots of time,
explained everything as well as I could --- and they've all gone away,
apparently never thinking that what I was saying might apply to THEM.


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