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- Discovery May Provide Insight into Brain Cell Aging
- New Evidence Keeping Brain Sharp and Active Wards off Alzheimer’s
- New Discoveries in Cell Aging
- Eye Trials Give Hope for Stem Cells
- How Stem Cell Implants Help Heal Traumatic Brain Injury
- Victory For Crowdsourced Biomolecule Design
- New Approach to Preventing Fatal Septic Shock
- Alzheimer’s Damage Occurs Early
- Oxidative DNA Damage Repair
- Fight Aging!
- Chronosphere
- Cryonics “Castle”
- Doing the Time Warp
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 3
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 1.
- Fortune and Men’s Eyes
- Interventive Gerontology 101.01: The Basics
- The Kurzwild Man in the Night
- Fucked.
- You Bet Your Life!
Category Archives: Death
Edvard Munch’s Death in the Sick Chamber
Edvard Munch’s painting “Death in the Sick Chamber” (1895) portrays death as expressed through the survivors. A striking aspect of this work is that all the people in the room do not console one another and are physically and emotionally … Continue reading
Carl Jung on the soul and death
In the future, Carl C.G. Jung may not be so much remembered for his contributions to science as for his beautiful writing, imagination, and wide range of interests. In his meditation on death, “The Soul and Death” (“Seele und Tod”), … Continue reading
Thomas Donaldson on cryonics and anti-aging
Just a superficial look at the history of the life extension movement will suffice to show the rise and fall of numerous fads and trends in ideas about the mechanisms and “treatment” of aging. Psychological meliorism and simplistic visions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Aging, Cryonics, Life Extension, Meliorism, Thomas Donaldson
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Interview with Cryonics Institute president Ben Best
This is the first in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. We start off with an interview with Ben Best, president of the Cryonics Institute. What is your philosophy toward life? I think … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Life Extension
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Suspended animation is not cryonics
On the Immortality Institute cryonics forum, Alcor Board member and researcher Brian Wowk has posted some insightful comments on the difference between suspended animation and cryonics. Although impressive technical advances in cryonics to date, such as vitrification, have failed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Wowk, Cryonics, Death, Suspended Animation, Thomas Donaldson
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The history of scientific immortalism
Now online is Mike Perry’s article “Historical Steps Toward the Scientific Conquest of Death.” This article was previously published in 2003 in Physical Immortality, a short-lived publication by the Society for Venturism. The article is adapted from Chapter 2 of … Continue reading
Herbert Marcuse on the ideology of death
Although critical philosophers like Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) are not known for their contributions to economics or analytic philosophy, Marcuse’s essay “The Ideology of Death” (1952) should appeal to those who think that death is not a necessary part … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Society
Tagged Critical Theory, Death, Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse
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Dogs resuscitated after 3 hours of cardiac arrest from exsanguination
Despite sensational news items about “zombie dogs,” biomedical researchers and clinicians have known for a long time that interruptions in consciousness and blood circulation can be reversed without neurological deficits, provided such events do not produce ischemic injury. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged Circulatory Arrest, Emergency Preservation, Hypothermia, Peter Safar, Trauma
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Cryonics as an elective medical procedure
The two most popular technical arguments against human cryopreservation are that cryonics causes irreversible freezing damage and that the delay between pronouncement of legal death and the start of cryonics procedures causes irreversible injury to the brain. Such arguments can … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death, Health
Tagged Critical Care Medicine, Cryonics, Death, Emergency Medicine
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Insurance against death through cryonics
Let’s face it: we’re all (still) getting older, and aging leads to death. This is a major reason for cryonics’ existence — to preserve ourselves, usually in an aged, diseased, and/or deteriorated state, until medical science is capable of curing … Continue reading
Curing aging does not make cryonics redundant
Most life extensionists and transhumanists do not buy into many of the myths about cryonics. But one perspective that is sometimes voiced by futurists is that cryonics is a rational backup plan until aging is cured. This position has some … Continue reading
Teaching children about cryonics
How do you teach a child about something that is so far “unproven”? How do you bring up the subject of cryonics and how it may allow someone to be reanimated in the future? I am a cryonicist, I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death
Tagged Child Rearing, Children, Cryonics, Death, Education, Shannon Vyff
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Transforming the death industry
In August 1968, Cryonics Reports (a publication from the Cryonics Society of New York) published an editorial that advocates the re-evaluation of the mortician and the funeral profession to make it a part of long term medical care, i.e. to … Continue reading
Radical life extension and information-theoretic death
Immortality as a zero probability of information-theoretic death may not be possible or realistic. A more practical (and less controversial) objective of radical life extension would be to minimize the chance of information-theoretic death. In analogy with Aubrey de Grey’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging, Cryonics, Death, Immortality, Nanotechnology, SENS
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Will POLST integrate end-of-life care options?
A recent investigation (PDF) of state statutes and legislation affecting the ability to implement a nation-wide program to standardize medical orders reflecting individual patients’ end-of-life treatment preferences was made publicly available by Oregon Health & Science University. The POLST (Physician … Continue reading
Immortality and cryonics
In “Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction,” (in: Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy) John Martin Fischer and Ruth Curl construct a taxonomy for immortality. As can be seen in the figure on the … Continue reading
Albert Einstein’s brain and information-theoretic death
“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Albert Einstein, Brain, Chemical Fixation, Research
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Why is cryonics so unpopular?
In his 1998 essay “The Failure of the Cryonics Movement” (part 1, part 2), Saul Kent stresses that cryonics has remained so unpopular because nobody thinks it will work. One observable implication of this view is that we would expect … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Care Medicine, Cryonics, Fear of Death, Life Extension, Vitrification
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Ev Cooper’s cryonics classic published online
Few, if any, cryonicists today can retrace their personal interest in cryonics to Evan Cooper. Despite the broader recognition of Robert Ettinger’s book, “The Prospect of Immortality,” which was commercially published in 1964, Cooper’s privately published 1962 manuscript, “Immortality: Physically, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryonics, Ev Cooper, Immortality, Nathan Dhuring, Singularity, Society For Venturism, Transhumanism
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Life not death
The idea that cryonics does not involve the freezing of “dead” people but is form of low temperature care to prevent death is almost as old as the idea of cryonics itself. In May 1968, Cryonics Reports, the publication of … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryonics, Cryonics Society Of New York, Death, Medicine, Resuscitation
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H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” and cryonics
In “Heritage of Horror,” Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi writes that Lovecraft’s short story “Cool Air” “anticipates cryogenic research.” We can forgive Joshi the common mistake of writing “cryogenics” when he means “cryonics,” but how much cryonics is there really in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryonics, Death, H.P. Lovecraft, Hypothermia, S.T. Joshi
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Aging: The ultimate disease
Cryonics Reports was the publication of the Cryonics Society of New York (CSNY). In April 1968 a call to arms to conquer aging was published. This editorial stressed that the problems of aging will not be solved until we decide … Continue reading
Consideration of the vanity and shortness of man’s life
Before the scientific conquest of death became a serious topic of conversation, philosophers, writers and poets had to resign themselves to the inevitable demise of the individual in this world. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), the “Shakespeare of Divines,” gave poetic expression … Continue reading
Biostasis through chemopreservation
Twenty years ago, Charles B. Olson published an article called “A Possible Cure for Death” in the journal Medical Hypotheses. In it, he favorably compares methods of chemical preservation to cryogenic preservation. Unfortunately, this article provoked no wide discussion or … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryonics, Death, Mind Uploading, Nanotechnology, Reanimation
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