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- Personalized Cryonics
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- Alcor member profile of Aschwin de Wolf
- The 2011 Cryobiology Conference
Cryonics Magazine- New Evidence Keeping Brain Sharp and Active Wards off Alzheimer’s
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Fight Aging!
Chronosphere- Cryonics “Castle”
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- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 3
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Death is Gruesome…Cryonics Only Makes it Less So!
William Faloon is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer (Florida license number: F042784) Human beings are largely unaware about the gruesome nature of “death” Humans also shy away from the mutilation that occurs during hospital surgery. Hollywood films portray cryonics … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Alcor, Autopsy, Bill Faloon, Cremation, Cryonics, Death, Embalming, Larry Johnson, Life Extension Foundation, Ted Williams, William Faloon
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Interview with cryonics funding specialist Rudi Hoffman
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. Rudi Hoffman is an Alcor and CI member and the most prominent seller of cryonics life insurance policies. His website with information … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Atheism, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Evidence Based Cryonics, Larry Johnson, Libertarianism, Life Insurance, Religion, Rudi Hoffman, Sam Harris, The End of Faith
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The pursuit of cryonics as medicine
The biggest obstacle to the acceptance of cryonics is medical myopia; the idea that someone who has been pronounced dead by contemporary medical criteria will still be considered dead by future criteria. Advocates of human cryopreservation strongly argue against this. … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Bioethics, Critical Care Medicine, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Jerry Leaf, Medical Myopia, Medicine, Mike Darwin, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Vitrification
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The “yuck factor” and cryonics
In sensationalized accounts of cryonics, explicit descriptions of cryonics procedures, and that of neuropreservation in particular, are used to invoke a negative response in the reader. Some bioconservatives have argued that disgust experienced in response to certain ideas and practices … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Alcor, Bioconservatives, Cryonics, Leon Kass, Medical Myopia, Neuropreservation, Ted Williams, Wisdom of Repugance, Yuck Factor
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Reversible cryopreservation
On the forum of the Immortality Institute there is an interesting exchange about the feasibility and time line for reversible cryopreservation. Cryobiologist Brian Wowk weighs in with some interesting observations: I think in the next 20 years more small animal … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Brain Cryopreservation, Brian Wowk, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Ischemia, Nanotechnology, Vitrification
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