I received my copy yesterday. My personal reaction to the new title is that it is a bit lame and lacking in 'punch'. Also, I would spell it with capital L's.

Happy Birthday Bob. You share it with my stepmother. It is also the day Mozart died in 1791.

Ben, did the liquid nitrogen-saturated cracker taste any different?

I wish every success to Dr Philip Rhoades in setting up a cryonics facility here in Australia. Hopefully it will eventually be available for use by the public. The chosen location of Cowra is a town about 200 miles by road west of Sydney. It is known in Australia mainly as the location of a prisoner of war camp during World War II, from which there was a breakout of Japanese prisoners.

Cowra is also only about 50 miles from Bathurst where I lived as a small boy and first attended school. Here is a website about Cowra:
http://www.cowra.nsw.gov.au/about.html
Regarding the proposed charity case, I am not clear from reading the article how much money he would need, but it ought to be possible to raise the money if every CI member, or even a substantial proportion of CI members, made a contribution.

Power in numbers. For example, if each of the 631 members donated $10, that would be $6,310 dollars. Perhaps some person with legal training could set up a suitable fund or account into which contributions could be paid? I would be happy to make one.

The article 'Long Life News' mentions someone called Jeanne Calment, and some readers may have wondered who she is/was. Jeanne Calment was 122 when she died in 1995 in a nursing home in the south of France. She was (and as far as I know still is) the longest lived human being of whom there is irrefutable proof.

Apparently she used to say, in reference to her extreme longevity, that God had forgotten about her. As a girl she once met Vincent van Gogh when he came into her father's shop. BTW (for non-Francophones) her name is roughly pronounced 'zhun culMON'.

The phone number for Australia in the list on the inside back cover, CRYONICS SUPPORT GROUPS WORLD WIDE, should read (03) 9589 6236 (if calling from inside Australia) or + 61 (3) 9589 6236 (if calling from elsewhere). The area code is 03, but you delete the '0' when calling from outside Australia.

John

The Magazine keeps getting better-you're doing a great job! Let us know if we owe you any money for the subscription. We have a submission for the Long Life Cartoon Caption as follows:

 "His last words were '" I'm your Country Cousin, can I stay awhile....?"

Thanks & Happy Holidays!

David & May Flude

There is no subscription charge. According to the Immortalist Society page in this issue, Members and Associates receive long life for $25 a year, in the .U.S. and Canada and Mexico. Overseas: AIR MAIL to Europe, $62 a year and to Australia or Asia $75 per year.