supportive comments
Steve BridgeIf we want to make progress in cryonics, we cannot keep doing what we have always done. Mathew Sullivan's article is an excellent beginning exploration of ways to get cryonics on the professional medical pathway. Please pay attention to this and add more ideas of your own.
Stephen Bridge
Alcor Suspension Member
Alcor Advisor
former Alcor President
Mike Quinn NREMT-P, MS
This article of yours should be a wake-up call to all those, in whatever cryonics organization they belong, to not only insist but demand that the staff at their personal attempt at immortality, be the best and the brightest available not just who ever can show-up or is handy.
Your organizations and your movement will be considered voodoo magic and totally disregarded by the medical community, until the time comes that the leaders of these organizations and individual movements are made to understand that without professionals in the mix, YOU ARE DOOMED. There is a general misconception among some of the Organizational Leaders that merely reading a few articles about medicine or reciting a chemical equation makes one an expert, this is not so. Experience, years of hands-on experience is the only true teacher.
You are paying a great deal money for this service, find out about the people that are to handle and look after you, you have the right to know. Just because a person has been on a number of "Stand-Byes" doesn't make him/her an expert or even good. That Golden Hour does exist, make sure, that the people who are handling you, know what to do and when to do it. After all, it is you or your wife or husband or child or mother or dad. Get the best you can, get professionals not well wishing amateurs.
Mathew, thank you for your bravery, this needed to be said.
Mike Quinn NREMT-P, MS
Aubrey de Grey
Many thanks Mathew - very instructive. Seems very logical. I have far too little relevant experience to be able to offer further suggestions, but I hope you get traction with this line of thought within the community - I expect you will.
Cheers,
Aubrey de
Grey
Chairman and Chief Science Officer,
Methuselah
Foundation
Alcor SAB member