Hi Christine,
Thank you and Ben for getting the CSC meeting back up and going and organizing the summer Zoom get-together.
Unfortunately, due to a prior conflicting commitment I won’t be able to join you today. Though I may have heard of some of the developments you and Carrie plan to discuss, I’m sure there’s plenty more that I haven’t, so I regret missing it, but that’s life.
I think you were maybe already copied on one or more of the emails indicating that I’ve joined Ben and Carrie on the board of Biostasis Technologies, making Canadians even more well represented on that and other related organizations.
I sent in my CSC dues, and am happy to continue to be on the CSC board if needed, though my current residential location on Pender Island (one of the Southern Gulf Islands, pop. ~2500) means I am a bit disconnected geographically, for the purposes of local/regional activity — something which occupies my mind from time to time in terms of how it impacts cryonics prospects, when the time comes. That said, most of the core Vancouver/Lower Mainland cryonics folk have moved in some form or another (I guess in some ways that’s the prevailing narrative of the Lower Mainland these days haha).
If Carrie is going to be at the Zoom meeting anyway, I would certainly encourage her being on the CSC board if she is interested. As you and others are already aware, she is very active in cryonics and has been for many years since first attending a cryonics presentation I gave at UBC back in 2011. The legal activism around the infamous section 14 in BC would not have progressed to the settlement stage without her.
Okay, I will leave off there for now. I hope the meeting today goes well. Sorry I can’t be there.
Cheers,
Keegan