You become part of a community with all the great people that replied before me. Its a great resource of information. It's a community of support for chronic pain suffers or just suffering from the pain of life. Discounts are available for a number of OP's. Although altruism is not too popular these days (well maybe a bit more since 9-11), we have a tremendous resource here for every reader and the administrator still needs to pay the rent, electricity and lawyers. I would hate to go back to seeing pop ads for Gold Cards and cell phones.