We were recently on Florida’s west coast. While over there, we stopped in to see Curtis Henderson, who lives in Spring Hill with his son. Curtis, along with Saul Kent started the Cryonics Society of New York back in the 60’s. Considering that he had a stroke a couple of years ago, he’s doing pretty well for a seventy six year old.

Although his principal transportation is still his motorcycle, the last we heard, he and his brother were touring the country in his brother’s single engine plane. They recently stopped in Detroit to visit Robert Ettinger.

This issue carries another ad from the Life Extension Foundation. We thank them for the confidence they’ve shown in us, so as they say in the trade, "Please patronize our advertisers." Well, in this case, it’s a little more difficult.. The ad on page 14 pushes a web site that, based on information you type in tells you how many seconds you have to live and, your death date. I typed in the info as accurately as I could, and it told me I have 0 seconds to live, in fact I died in September of last year! I haven’t felt well since then. I saw no mention of LEF or their products.

I found out later that those with some time left on this earth are provided links to LEF products that could extend their life time. But, since I was already dead, there’s no sense in giving me the link!

Speaking of LEF, it’s not very often, (OK, it never happens,) that we see a familiar name when reading the "Letters" column of a magazine. Well, lo and behold, in TIME’s June 23^rd issue, there was a letter from Bill Faloon, "Director, Life Extension Foundation."

It seems TIME ran a piece about the health benefits of red wine and the antioxidant compound resveratrol stating that Longevinex, a company marketing wine supplements is the only firm whose pills are made from real red wine extract from France. Well Bill corrected TIME, and got a little publicity as well. He didn’t say if the pills still provide a buzz.

A "LETTER TO THE EDITOR" in WIRED also caught our eye. It was in response to the treatment cryonics received in the piece on BioTime, page 15. The letter writer said….But why be embarrassed by the connection to cryonics? If cryonics can work, isn’t it much more "creepy" to let your loved ones rot or burn?

Peter Merel

Limpinwood, Australia

There’s a Peter Merel in Australia who’s a frequent cryonet contributor.

James Swayze’s advice about being a pleasant hospital patient is excellent, but it’s even more so for cryonics patients.

See CIYG Digest, page 11.

This past June 5^th marked the 50^th anniversary of the publishing of Robert Ettinger’s The Prospect of Immortality

It’s understandable, if anyone reading BACK IN THE SUN, page 14 is confused. For years we’ve been told to avoid the sun, and if you must be exposed to it, to be sure and use sunscreen. According to this, a lot of older people aren’t getting enough sun. But what really caught our eye, was the closing quote: "there’s not a whole of lot of direct evidence that sunscreens prevent skin cancer, and virtually none, that they prevent melanoma, the deadliest form."

What’s a person to do?