Eventually, children of patients who have been suspended longer could provide counseling or comforting for the children of newer suspendees. And from a practical standpoint, I think this approach makes it more likely that family members will eventually sign up themselves. People love to have a place to talk in the late evening and if you can provide interesting people, plus food and beverage, they may well choose YOUR place. Brenda Peters and Mike Darwin deserve most of the credit for the work here. As has always been our experience, some of the best conversations and most interesting mixing of people took place in Alcor's suite.
Few people can judge levels of technological or business competence to any real degree.
But they can get a sense of honesty, openness, friendliness, and general competence from the personal contacts they have. That makes these informal parties very important for groups like ours. Outsiders especially have to be given the chance to see that we are not crazies, but are intelligent, interesting, rational, and friendly people. Saturday morning started with Bob Ettinger's low key summary of his experiences in the cryonics movement and his ideas about what will be required in the future. If you don't know Bob, he is a quiet, thoughtful, and sincere individual, but not a powerful activist or charismatic speaker.