Cryonics Magazine- Scientists Eavesdrop Inside the Mind
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- 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
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- The Kurzwild Man in the Night
- Fucked.
- You Bet Your Life!
Tag Archives: Death
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
H.P. Lovecraft and the science of resuscitation
H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West is a man of science, not superstition. Following Ernst Haeckel, he believes that “all life is a chemical and psychical process,” that the soul is “a myth,” and that “unless actual decomposition has set in, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, H.P. Lovecraft, Herbert West, Reanimation, Resuscitation
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Arthur C. Clark and cryonics
Arthur C. Clark ( 1917-2008 ) was no stranger to cryonics. The famous science fiction author even assisted the cryonics organization Alcor during its legal battles. As he states in a letter in support of cryonics, “Although no one can … 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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Stability and autolysis of cortical neurons in post-mortem adult rat brains
One scientific question that weighs heavily on the feasibility of contemporary cryonics is what happens to the brain after cardiac arrest. Common wisdom has it that the brain “dies” within 5-7 minutes after circulatory arrest. This is true in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Apoptosis, Death, Decomposition, Ischemia, Necrosis
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Cryonics: Using low temperatures to care for the critically ill
“Cryonics does not involve the freezing of dead people. Cryonics involves placing critically ill patients that cannot be treated with contemporary medical technologies in a state of long-term low temperature care to preserve the person until a time when treatments … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Care, Cryonics, Cryopreservation, Death, Suspended Animation
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Rapid stabilization in human cryopreservation
“Even in the case of advanced Alzheimer’s disease, a person is ultimately not declared dead because of the loss of personhood, but as a consequence of secondary whole brain death or cardiac and respiratory arrest. In essence, today’s medicine routinely … Continue reading