https://www.reddit.com/r/cryonics/comments/cmm2ig/alcors_appeal_for_money_to_support_litigation/
This policy was supposed to be phased out and hopefully replaced with other safeguards. With the departure of Jerry Leaf and Mike Darwin, and the new leadership of Steve Bridge, Ralph Whelan, and Dave Pizer, a whole new direction was taken. A decision was made to focus most capital not required for operations on promotion and membership growth in order to reach a hypothetical "post-start-up" phase, at which point Alcor would supposedly enjoy enormous economies of scale and rapidly expanding membership and patient populations. This promotion and membership-based growth program were going to cost a lot of money and the solution to this problem was to discard the 10% Rule, revise the cryopreservation safety margins radically downward and raise the cost of neuro to subsidize whole-body.
The reason for the last change may seem obscure until it is understood that management had decided that whole-body was the key to the greater acceptance of cryonics and conversely that neuro was a PR liability. New members were told that neuro was only for people who couldn't afford whole-body and the cost of whole-body was reportedly kept artificially low. This resulted in a huge shift away from neuro to whole-body and with it increasing underfunded obligations. The grandfathering policy was not formally stopped until well into the 21st century. The result was that by circa 2010, Alcor had ~$17 million in unfunded liabilities that would accrue from cryopreserving its currently signed up and underfunded members. Effectively none of the many millions of dollars given as bequests to Alcor had gone into the patient care fund and, low and behold, the magic "post-start-up singularity" never materialized.
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