I'm looking back in my notes to when I was working at LEF in 1984-1986 and in my spare moments, I would design cryonics/lifex retreat concepts on paper that I still have. Here we are some 38 years later and nothing like it exists.
The final critical step in cryonics is to have a place where retiring cryos can live and work and possibly start new businesses together while being protected by a backup crew of cryo techs, and yet even the wealthy cryos spend more time engaged in protecting themselves than the cryo community. Their minds cannot even conieve of a cryo community that's self-supportive.
Take Pizer for instance. I KNEW he was "up the creek without a paddle" with Creekside Presever / Ventureville simply due to the drive out of town. It was impossible for most people to get there. And there never were any arrangements or pitches made to retiring cryos, no was there a single article, although I should double check Perry's writing on this topic. I certainly don't recall it being pitched like Daves pitch for "live and work with other cryos" in Alcor magazine in 1990 that I responded to. THAT place was even MORE remote, in the white mountains near Payson AZ.
CI has never pitched anything remotely resembling a cryonics retirement residence because I once looked around there for a reasonable facsimile. Laughlin's Riverside Hotel showed promise along with Pizer and Laughlin planning something that never saw the light of even an article, that Spanish family once had plans for a hotel near Alcor that died without an article, and now we have that Colorado hotel situation with actual dewers out there but no article that I've seen and no discussion on reddit/cryonics or mentions on Discord/cryonics that I know of.
And finally we have Bill Falloon's latest effort to provide accomodation for speakers at CPL at CPLII that APPEARS TO ME to be a possibility but again, with only a passing reference in a live youtube talk and no article, no plan, no vision, denial by a visitor here in this forum, nothing, nobody, nowhere, never, not.
It'a all laughable to me now because if wealthy cryos were actually serious, they would have had a cryo retreat years ago similar to the many retirement residences I've played piano and organ at. They ALL have a front foyer large enough for dozens of people and they ALL have a piano or organ for guests like me to play and be paid... because they ALL have Activity Directors and music programs with regular musical guests. NONE were even signed up for cryonics.
I've seen and experienced both worlds. The regular people in regular homes can be forgiven for not signing up for cryonics and the residence owners can be forgiven for not having dewars and cryotech teams on staff. But the cryonics people canNOT be forgiven for NOT having created a retirement residence.
For me, it's too late. I'm a convert to dualism explained in other threads here. My own cryonics career such as it was is over. However, looking back, I can see gaping holes in the cryonics mission and this residence problem is one of the easist ones for me to see clearly. I'm already in a position to "translate to the quantum realm" no matter where I am and no matter what my circumstances are. I no longer need a retreat, spa, retirement residence or survival center. Those things are cute and would be interesting but I'm already set, as far as that goes, with my favorite authors, Matzke, Russell, Penfield, Burr and I might add Ettinger, via his final paragraphs in Chapter 3 of Man into Superman. Why not? It was Ettinger that got me started on this in 1978 with Prospect of Immortality when I was still searching for the meaning of life. It's interesting that I ended up with Russell's "Prospects of Eternity" that completed my "mission" as it were.
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