VIP outreach
From ImmInstWiki
List of people contacted:
Suggested letter pitches:
This is our first letter, and I may just erase this from the wiki page as we have many other good letters that should be inputed in here. But for now I'll leave it in, even though it's pretty bad.
Dear celebs name,
We're with the human longevity organization imminst.org, which stands for the Immortality Institute for Research into Indefinite Lifespans. We are starting a campaign to get people like yourself interested in the very real prospect of achieving radically longer life spans in the next 20 to 50 years. Basically there is emerging research into slowing down, halting or even reversing the human aging process. In order to do this we are focusing on a few key areas. One is trying to see how long scientists can keep a mouse alive for. This initiative is part of a research study that is going on now which is being done at an organization called The Methuselah Foundation. Here is there website. http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/index....ions_membership We've already raised X amount of dollars for this cause. If we are successful in prolonging the life span of a mouse than we have another project we are working on called SENS Foundation which is a project run by Dr. Aubrey De Grey, a biogerentologist out of Enlgand, who has come up with a way of engineering an approach to comabat what he calls the 7 causes of aging in humans. Here is there website. http://www.sens.org/
This is going to be an expansive project that will require quite a bit of fundraising. I should tell you we are NOT looking necessarily for charitable donations at this time. Our mission, really, is to inform people like yourself who might be a good representative for the human longevity cause. We really want to inform people that there is something currently being done about ending human aging in our lifetime. We think aging is a degenerative disease that should be fought and ultimately cured just like any other disease such as Cancer, Aids, Diabetes, and Heart Disease. 150 years ago people only lived an average of 40 years. This is because they died of diseases that we can easily cure today. As I said aging can be thought of also as a disease that leave people's minds and bodies frail and suspeptible to the diseases of old age that will eventually kill them.
We've also included a copy of Dr. Degrey's book entitiled Ending Aging. It has all the basic information you'll need to better understand this new approach to the human aging problem. We would also be very grateful if you could attend one of our Sunday Evening Chats on our website imminst.org. We feature prominent scientists, imminst members, and radical thinkers who sometimes call themselves Transhumanists on our Sunday online chat forum every Sunday. We want to hear what you have to say about your thoughts on living longer and the prospect of how you feel your life could be improved if we even could live longer or even indefinitely. (maybe we can mention our book here.)
We realize this is probably all new news for you as there is not that much press so far for radical life extension. However we have made some good strides. Aubrey was featured on 20/20 with Barbra Walters in their special "How to live to 150." Dr. Degrey was also featured on a smaller segment of the Colbert Report. It is our belief here at imminst that we only need to spread the word as to what is currently being done in the field of aging to get Americans and the rest of the world to see that something can indeed be done to prolong our life span in a realistic and hopefully rather short time frame. And of course the big step will be funding and seeing empirical results.
We appreciate your time and we here at imminst believe whether we live to only 80 or much much longer is up to people like yourselves and scientists getting on board and doing something about this problem. 100,000 people die of old age everyday and if we can do something about it we think that this is an ethical and right thing to do. Most people I've talked to say they would want to extend their lives by quite a large margin and mabye even live indefintiely or as long as they want to. We believe that this is going to be the norm as death should not be so easily tolerated anymore in civilized society.
Thank your for your time!
Devon fowler imminst.org
Suggested phone pitches:
I don't have any solid ideas yet for the phone pitch as I don't even know if we will be talking to their publicist, agents, or them. But i imagine it should be a condensed form of the letter. We will need someone who can answer any question the VIP, publicist, or agent may have. I don't necessarily think I would be the best person for this unless I had a sheet to look at with factual details at my disposal. Anyone can erase this thing I wrote when we have a solid phone pitch idea.
Basic suggested outline: name - contact info - strategy used(telephone, snail mail, link to a letter template if applicable, link to a phone pitch template if applicable) - results - recommend follow up time (if needed)
1. Bill Maher http://www.contactvip.com/members/b/Bill-Maher_contact_address/
2. Richard Dawkins contact source
3. Michio Kaku contact source
4. Ray Kurzweil contact source
5. Ron Paul contact source
6. Larry King http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/Larry_King/Contact.asp
7. Hugh Hefner http://www.fanmail.biz/55427.html
8. Seth Green http://www.fanmail.biz/748.html
His address as found on Contact VIP paid site, I could not find his email yet c/o Trice Koopman Koopman Management 851 Oreo Pl Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 USA
9. Jarice Hanson http://www.umass.edu/communication/faculty_staff/hanson.shtml
10. Harvard Humanist Contact info http://www.harvardhumanist.org/about-us/contact-us
11. William Shatner contact info:
Press Inquiries and Contact: Press@WilliamShatner.com
c/o Larry Thompson Larry A Thompson Organization 9663 Santa Monica Blvd #801 Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA
Others:
- Simon Young author of Designer Evolution email: designerevolution@btinternet.com
Lists to consult:
1. Celebrity Atheist/Agnostic List
2. The World's Most Influential People
4. Top 25 Celebrity Hot List - We'll need some beauty with all that brains.
6. List of richest American politicians
7. List of billionaires (2009)
8. Top 25: Influential business leaders
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