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Posted by Nicholas Albery on February 07, 1998 at 15:11:37:
In Reply to: AN APPEAL : TO ALL WHO KNEW AND LOVED NICK posted by from: Georgeanne Downes (Uxbridre)/Alternative London on February 06, 1998 at 18:11:35:
Thanks very much for this kind gift Georgie and my first greedy
reaction on behalf of our charity (which desperately needs the
money) was to go along with your appeal. But I feel ashamed of
that as although Nicholas may in some afterlife appreciate mine
and the Centre's knowledge for his funeral, in his life the Centre
was not his scene at all. He tended to think death was ghastly
and even to talk about a funeral put him off his food. Also I
am in no sense his heir just his friend. His heirs will be those
who follow through on his main passion, exploring psychedelic
research. I know for sure he would like any money in his memory,
if money helps, to go to MAPS, the multidisciplinary association for psychedelic research,
run by Rick Doblin and colleagues. Nevertheless, any of you out
there, unlike Nicholas, interested in subjects like woodland burial
and care for the dying at home are welcome to visit our Natural Death Centre. It's a project of the Institute for Social Inventions which Nicholas was slightly more interested in - he was a director
- as he was a natural social inventor, full of cunning ideas for
social change.