Here is my suggestion for a letter to Mr. Bowie. I sent a similar letter some months ago, but unfortunately I haven´t received an asnwer. Hopefully if we send many, many letters, the secretary will give one of these letters to Mr. Bowie personally. I am optimistic, that Mr. Bowie would be interested. Of course the best option would be to visit Mr. Bowie himself in London, e.g. during a press conference or during an autograph hour or something like that.
Warm regards
Martin
Suggestion for a standard contact letter for Mr. Bowie (and other people, that may be interested in supporting life extension research):
Name
Street
City
Country
E-mail:
Phone:
Subject: Support for leading biomedical aging researchers
Dear Mr. Bowie,
my name is XY. I am a member of the US nonprofit educational organization “Immortality Institute” (
http://www.imminst.org). The Immortality Institute is an umbrella organization that serves as a platform for its members to exhibit, exchange and debate ideas and information regarding the possibility of human physical immortality. The members of the Immortality Institute are convinced, that biomedical research has the potential to significantly extend the healthy human lifespan. We want to support leading biomedical aging researchers, so that a safe and effective anti-aging therapy will be available as soon as possible.
You may know, that biomedical research has already begun to unlock the secrets of aging. Scientists haven been able to double and triple the healthy lifespan of flies, worms, rats and mice and they already know some master genes, that control the aging process.
Here are some examples of recent breakthroughs of molecular aging research:
•In December 2000 Dr. Stephen Helfand and other researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center discovered a gene, that doubles the average life span of fruit flies This gene is also found in humans and opens the way for new therapies that could extend the average human life span to 150 years.
•In September 2001 Dr. Robert Costa from the University of Illinois at Chicago published a study about the regenerative potential of the FoxM1B-gene. „Ponce de Leon was looking in the wrong place for the fountain of youth,“ said Dr. Costa. „He should have looked for the FoxM1B-gene.“
•In February 2002 researchers from the Icelandic biotech firm DeCode Genetics pinpointed the Methuselah gene, which contributes to extreme longevity. Dr. Kari Stafansson, the CEO of DeCode said: „We know the location of this gene. Soon we will study its exact DNA sequence and work out how it works in the body. You can then think of making drugs that could replicate its action. There is no reason why we cannot do this“.
The potential of biomedical aging research is very clear. But aging research is extremely underfunded. Many exciting research projects can´t be realized, because there is no adequate funding. So we need the help of financially influential people, who want to support biomedical aging research. We read a recent interview with the German magazine „Der Spiegel“, during which you said, that you wished to become 200-300 years old. Biomedical research has the potential to let this ancient dream of mankind become a reality within this decade. But without adequate funding it may take much longer to realize this potential. So if you are interested in supporting biomedical aging research, please contact us soon. We would like sending you additional studies and documents, answer all your remaining questions and give you the necessary contact addresses of the researchers. Of course you will be able to visit the laboratories of the researchers and talk to them personally, before making an investment/funding decision. We are absolutely convinced, that a safe and effective anti-aging therapy would have an enormous market potential worldwide. So this research is also extremely interesting from a business point of view.
Of course we will guarantee absolute anonymity, if you want that.
Best regards
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(XY)
