By David Pizer

If you are like me you probably long for the time when death will no longer be an imposition on human beings, and even many other animals. You probably hope that as soon as possible a protocol to reverse aging will be available for all who want it, so you can grow the body that houses your mind into a youthful state and lock it in. You most likely feel that it would be a good thing when we humans have created a method of living in ultimate safety free from accident or intentional, undeserved harm from others. Then the icing on the cake might be a way to change your physical body into something even more useful, more sturdy and invincible. (In my case, more beautiful would be nice too.)

If you have spent some time thinking about life after cryonic revival, about being a part of whatever humanity can become in the next hundreds or thousands of years, (or longer), you probably have come to the conclusion that the future can be a pretty wonderful place and worth all effort to try to venture there. So what are the things you can do to improve your chances of not having to be dead forever? Here is the short list:

1. Get signed up for cryonics right away.

2. Work to make your cryonics suspension organization better. Do volunteer work if they offer it. Donate money to their research or other projects.

3. Tell your friends that you are signed up so that at your legal death there will not be any questions that you wanted your body frozen.

4. Join the Venturist Organization and carry a membership card that says you have a religious objection to autopsy - the number one threat to getting a good suspension by present standards.

5. Don't live alone, or if you have to, have someone you call every morning at a certain time and an arrangement that if you don't call at that time, they send someone to check on you. Avoid the number two threat to a good suspension - dying alone and no one finding you for a while.

Here is what you have to do to become a Venturist. You have to be signed up for cryonics with Alcor or CI, or other approved organizations as they come on

line, and you have to affirm our two principles:

1. To try to overcome death using technology.

2. To try to do what is right.

Chances are if you are signed up for cryonics you agree with our two principles and you are a Venturist in principle. I think it is nice and useful if all of us join together and watch over each other if need be.

Here is what you do NOT have to do to be a Venturist.

1. You don't have to believe in God, but you can if you want to.

2. You don't have to believe anything that another Venturist believes (except the two Venturist Principles, of course).

3. We don't have any gurus that know more than you do. We don't have a magic, secret formula that we claim helps us get ahead. We have a formula but it isn't a secret - we think that it will be easier for scientists and doctors in the future to revive people who have been frozen then those who have been buried or cremated.

If you would like to join, give Mike Perry an email at: mike@alcor.org and tell him where you are signed up and funded at a cryonics organization and that you affirm the two Venturist Principles. He will add you to our list and send you a membership card with the religious objection to autopsy on it. Carry that card at all times. It might help to tell your friends you are a Venturist (unless revealing that you are signed up for cryonics might hurt you in some way at this time). Join over 200 other cryoncists that have already signed up over the years.