Our Greeting for 40-th Anniversary of Cryonics Institute

Dear friends, employees of the Cryonics Institute, Board Members and all members of CI.

Congratulations on the 40th anniversary of the Cryonics Institute, a legendary organization that was an example and inspiration to us. We wish CI to continue developing overcoming all obstacles. We wish it to prosper and remain one of our leaders showing new directions to other members of the immortalist community.

We are immensely grateful to CI for the help you were always eager to provide. Moreover, without CI, its help and openness we'd never be able to create KrioRus and gain the technologies required for our work. Without this help cryonics may have started only now, a decade later. The openness of CI has always appealed to us. A long time ago, when we created the support group in Russia, CI promoted it in its magazine and also took the responsibility of referring interested Russian customers to us. It was this trust and thoughtfulness that brought Daniil Fedorenko to us back in 2005, now more than a decade ago. A single referral from CI meant that we took a chance to actually try cryonics in Russia openly and seriously. Even though there were several cryonics suspensions in our country before, none of them led to a community forming to develop cryonics and care for the patients in anabiosis. Who knows how many years would pass before a public initiative would happen if not for you.

History is made by people. We are deeply grateful to the people who brought cryonics to the world, including of course, the father of cryonics Robert Ettinger, who put his passion and intelligence not just into cryonics idea in general, but into the very real organization that has now endured for four decades - the Cryonics Institute. We are grateful to Ben Best, a long time President of CI, for his sincere interest ever since he first came to Moscow many years ago, for his support and friendly encouragement. We are grateful for his many articles and webpages that we have translated and studied. We thank Andy Zawacky. Without his help and information we would never dare start construction of our own full-body cryostats in Russia. And we are thankful to Dennis Kowalsky for his moral support and friendly discussions.

It is with immense pleasure that we remember more than two years of work at KrioRus of Yury Pichugin, a talented scientist that the Cryonics Institute supported for a long time. He has taught us many things and trained us to follow high standards in our research work.

The Cryonics Institute was always there for us to help us with advice, technical support, information, protocols, even designs for our cryostats. This friendly help imbued KrioRus with the same values. Now we believe it's our responsibility to share our knowledge and experience further, to Japan, Australia, Spain and any country that asks us for help. We want to improve and ensure quality, make cryonics popular and accessible, integrate cryonics with medicine and funeral services, expand cryonics internationally.

KrioRus and Russian cryonics are forever indebted to the Cryonics Institute. As a sign of our friendship, our gratitude and respect we have made a special souvenir for you. We hoped until the last moment that one of us could come to the anniversery event, but we still didn't get our visas and so we couldn't come. We will visit you later and congratulate you in person, but right now we will use the express post and send this memorial souvenir to CI. Let me share with you a photograph and explain the inscription.

It says: "From KrioRus to Cryonics Institute with respect for 40 years of visionary work".

In the perfectly round digit that symbolizes perfection we placed the dearest moment to our hearts captured in time - the photograph of the only meeting in the history of humankind of the director of the Russian cryonics company KrioRus with the father of cryonics and the founder of the Cryonics Institute, Robert Ettinger. This meeting happened in 31. March, 2011, but the second meeting will only happen when we succeed, when cryonics patients are brought back to life and we all meet again.

We hope to work with CI and its people to make this happen. The journey to immortality may be half over. Let's make sure the second half goes smoothly!