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Meetings and Events
Next Meeting
Date:
Saturday & Sunday, May 3rd. & 4th.
2008
Time:
10am-4.30pm both days
Place:
4 Mount Caburn Crescent, Peacehaven, E. Sussex, BN10 8DW
Hosted by:
Alan & Sylvia Sinclair
Directions:
From London area M25 / M23 /A23 to Brighton Seafront.
Turn Left/ Eastbound onto A.259 Coast road, follow this
road through Rottingdean & come to Peacehaven. At 2nd.
Roundabout Turn Left & Inland, follow local Map to 4
Mount Caburn Crescent.
Accommodation:
contact Alan or David on numbers below
Alan Sinclair-01273-587660 /
0780-336-0783 or
cryoservices@yahoo.co.uk
David Flude-01323-509836
Saturday 3rd. May
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10
AM Annual General Meeting
Election of New Officers by a show of hands: The
Secretary & Treasurer have kindly agreed to continue to
serve. There are no less than 4-new
Honorary positions to be filled this year-Team Leader, 2nd.
Team Leader, Organiser & President. We already have
nominations for Team Leader & President; if you think
you can fill any of these new positions & have
the time & commitment to do so, please put your name
forward as soon as possible.
Brief
Reports by Standby Team Leader, Secretary, Treasurer,
Membership Manager
“Empowering
Ordinary Members through a new Sub Committee” by Mark
Walker
“Making your Life Safer-a new Objection to Autopsy Card
& Memory Sticks” by David Flude
1 PM Lunch
2 PM Training Module led by Alan & new Team Leader
4 PM Discussion Forum-your chance to ask questions
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Sunday 4th May
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10
AM “Wine can Extend your Life” –
serious tasting Research invited! By David Flude
10.45 AM 2nd Training Module” by Alan &
new Team Leader
1 PM Lunch
2 PM Cryonics Membership Workshop” (both CI & Alcor),
Costs, Funding, Life Insurance, Paperwork-Questions &
Answers
4 PM CUK Programme for coming year
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For many years Alan & Sylvia have been generously
providing Food & Drink, a comfortable place for the
Meetings & occasionally Accommodation as well, at a
loss!
Members Subscriptions:
This year’s Standby Team Members Subscription will now
be:
-
Single Members
- £15 a Month
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For
2 Members
living in the same house – £20 a Month
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Cost of each 2-Day Meeting
- Special Team Price of just £5, payable in advance:
Non Team Members Costs for the Meeting:
If you don’t wish to join the Standby Team (or receive
any Team benefits) then you will automatically be an
Ordinary Member or Visitor. You will need to just pay
£20 in advance for the 2 Day Meetings - this price
covers all Food, including an Evening Meal, Tea &
Coffee.
Payments for subscriptions and meetings can be made
online at
http://www.cryonics.uk.com/
http://www.cryonics.uk.com/Cryonics_Meetings.htm
Make Cheques payable/ arrange Standing Orders to “HOPRT”-
our registered Charity.
Please contact the Honorary
Treasurer Graham Hipkiss on 0115 9224795 or
ghipkiss@hotmail.com
to apply for Team Membership, amend any details and pay
for the Meeting in advance.
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Some Places
to Stay for the meetings
Newhaven
Lodge
12 Brighton Rd
Newhaven
01273 513736
Double £50 Single £25
The Bridge Inn
High Street
Newhaven
01273 514059
Double £35
Single £20
The Old Volunteer Guest House
1 South Road
Newhaven
01273 515204
Double on
suite £50 Double small £38.50 Single £25.50
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There will be four 2-Day quarterly
meetings usually with training on the Saturday and speakers, discussion etc. on
Sunday. All meetings are subject to last minute cancellation due to weather etc,
always check with the contact if you're coming a distance
The Standby Team is a
self help group - Members are required to attend the meetings for training
and refresher training - If you cant find the time to attend there is no standby
team
Whilst most of the meetings are held in Peacehaven, E. Suussex, the "Cryonics UK
Roadshow" is a unique rotating venue that gives more distant members a chance to
meet. We anticipate meetings in London, the West, Midlands/North. If you are
willing to host an Cryonics Europe meeting please
contact Mark Walker.
The Meetings will be held the second week
of March, June, September and December
The Venue is
at the home of Alan and Sylvia Sinclair - 4 Mount Caburn Crescent, Peacehaven,
E.Sussex, BN10 8DW. Tel.01273-587660 (Maps and Directions available if
you
haven't been before-just
E-Mail Mark
Walker or click
here for the map.) or email
Alan
Sinclair
The First Cryonics UK Meeting 11th and 12th March
2005
The First Meeting had a good turn out with some new
faces which was good to see. Sebastian has produced a report on the
outcome Cryonics UK is a self-help group of cryonicists that provides
emergency response services for its members.
In order to be eligible to receive the assistance of volunteers in an
emergency, members are required to
1) Join the group.
2) Have a securely funded contract with a cryonics provider.
3) Have extra funds demonstrably committed to cover the extra costs
shipping to the US, the services of a funeral director and the technical
costs of a suspension. As a rough estimate, these costs amount to about
13.000 British Pound / 18.000 Euro. Usually, these funds will be part of
the cryonics provider's overseas membership scheme.
4) Attend training regularly. Training will take place in the UK on the
second weekend of March, June, September, and December each year.
Failure to attend at least two meetings per year without being able to
produce a medical certificate will lead to revocation of membership.
5) Pay membership dues of about 120 GBP/ 170 EUR per year to cover the
groups running cost.
6) Be located in the UK at the time the emergency occurs.
Currently, the Cryonics UK is not able will not offer assistance to
non-members. Individual private arrangements might be possible but must
be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. It should be absolutely clear
that such arrangements will likely not be possible and be extremely
expensive if they
are. (30.000- 50.000+ GBP per emergency)
Some Details and Questions:
Why is standby service necessary?
Cryonics is all about recoverability. If suspension is not initiated
immediately after deanimation (after you are declared dead) cellular
decomposition will wreak havoc in brain and body.
Why train volunteers?
In all foreseeable future, US style professional standby services will
not be available in Europe. While it might be possible to fly a response
team in from the US, costs are considerable and there might not be
enough time in an emergency.
Therefore, volunteer response teams have to be trained to the highest
possible level. If European membership grows, it might be possible to
train up and fund a professional service in the future, but at the
moment, the cost is prohibitive.
Why do I have to train in order to receive the service?
There are currently not enough committed volunteers available. If we
offered a service without requiring active participation, most people
would simply join, lean back and expect to be rescued by somebody when
their time comes.
If everybody acts like that, nobody would ever be trained and thus
nobody would ever be able to help in an emergency. Therefore, we have to
create a huge incentive to be trained. If you don't train, you won't get
rescued. If there are absolutely compelling reasons why you cannot
train, it might be possible to come to an arrangement but such cases
will be very rare.
What about the cost?
There are certain costs involved in the suspension itself. The following
enumeration is a very rough estimate that is likely to change
considerably depending on whether neuro suspension or whole body,
traditional perfusion
or vitrification, transport by ship or by air etc. is required.
Medicines 700 GBP, expendable parts 500 GBP, perfusate 800 GBP, services
of a funeral director including paperwork and shipping 10.000 GBP, dry
ice for shipping 300 GBP.
Total: 12.300 GBP / 17.600 EUR. (Hence quoted as 13.000 / 18.000 above)
Usually, all these costs should be covered by your contract with the
cryonics provider and/or through "over-insurance". Cryonics UK will
expect that it is reimbursed for all the costs involved in a suspension
and it is your responsibility to ensure that enough funds have been
committed to that purpose. Please note that these costs are determined
on a strict non-for profit basis. There is no charge for personnel,
food, running costs, incidental costs, clothing, phone, electricity,
ice, etc. Some of these
costs are covered by the membership fee.
Can non-UK citizen join?
Yes. However, we will only be able to rescue you if you are in the UK
when an emergency occurs. This is not only due to practical
considerations of travel times in an emergency but also due to barriers
in language, culture and -most importantly- legal system that would make
a service very difficult anywhere else. Luckily, it is very easy these
days for any EU citizen to travel to the UK or set up residence when an
emergency is thought to be imminent.
Sebastian Sethe
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