X-Message-Number: 786 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 13:30:03 EDT From: (Perry E. Metzger) Subject: CRYONICS: Another loss? I just got this off of EXTROPIANS; it passed through a lot of hands, though the original writer was Bob Summersgill. My question: was he [ O'Neill - KQB ] signed up for cryonics? If not, another great waste has happened. I'm on the verge of suggesting that we (that is, cryonicists on CryoNet) make up a list of people we really don't want to see die (outside of ourselves and our immediate families) and that a concerned subcommittee of us try to make a few (VERY GENTLE) attempts at seeing to it that the people on the list are at least aware of the options. ------------------------------- Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill died yesterday, 4/27/92 in Princeton, NJ. He was 65 years old. Dr. O'Neill was the founder and President of the Space Studies Institute, Professor Emeritus of Princeton, founder of the GeoStar Corp., and O'Neill Communications, Inc. He is the author of four books including *The High Frontier* and *2081*. He created and popularized the idea of colonies in free space, designed and built the Mass Driver, and designed the device that allows particle accelerators to fire into each other. He was a recipient of the SEDS's Arthur C. Clarke Award. His death was the result of a seven year fight with leukemia. A memorial service will be held at the Princeton Chapel, May 26th at 10:00am. ------------------------------- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=786