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From: "Halperin, Jim" <>
Subject: RE: CryoNet #9054 - #9057
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:33:29 -0600

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 "den Otter" <> writes:
Subject: Miller Quarles & cryonics
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:57:11 +0100
I suppose most people on this list have already heard of Miller 
Quarles,
a rich Texan oilman, founder of the Society for Curing Old Age 
Disease
and Geron Corp. http://www.geron.com/ (of telomerase fame). He seeks
immortality through genetic engineering, and has spent quite some 
money
on research etc. He is also over 80 years old, and although he's 
allegedly
in good health (unless, of course, he died recently) it seems obvious 
that
he's not going to make it, i.e. the breakthrougs in anti-aging 
research are
almost certainly too far off to be of any use too him. Since the man 
is an
immortalist, one would expect that he has therefore made the 
necessary
arrangements with a cryonics company. However, this doesn't seem to be 
the
case. There is no mention of cryonics in any of the articles about M. 
Quarles,
in which he *does* state that he desires biological immortality etc. 
Is he for
some strange reason anti-cryonics, or simply unaware of the option? 
(hard
to imagine, though). In the latter case it might be useful if someone 
(with
some standing in the cryonics community) would notify Quarles. It goes 
without saying that a suspension contract would greatly benefit both 
Mr.
Quarles as well as the cryonics community (at least *one* company, 
anyway ;)

Apart from this, wouldn't it be a good idea for cryonics organizations 
to
specifically
target the high(er) income groups (intensively)? Surely there must be 
plenty of
rich folks out there without an urgent death-wish...Or has this 
already been tried?

For an article on Quarles, gentics & immortality:
http://www.inc.co.za/online/sunday_life/june_30/life.html

===To den Otter:
	Miller Quarles is indeed alive and well, although he was hospitalized 
and nearly died last year from a staph infection. I have spoken with 
him recently (he wrote to me after reading an advance copy of The 
First Immortal). Although a subscriber to Alcor publications, he has 
not yet signed up for suspension. He seems to believe that aging 
reversal will come in time for him, an opinion from which I have thus 
far been unable to dissuade him.
	I expect,as a result of my book, to run into many people with odd 
views of death, society, religion, likely biotechnological progress, 
etc., and welcome all suggestions about how best to handle such 
situations, especially from cryonicists who have actually read The 
First Immortal.
Best regards, Jim Halperin

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