Tag Archives: Hostile Relatives

Medico-Legal Aspects of Human Cryopreservation Optimization

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

Introduction Ongoing legal challenges and hostile interference of relatives have increased awareness among cryonicists that addressing the likelihood that one will be cryopreserved at all should take center stage among other strategies for survival. As a consequence, a number of … Continue reading →

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The presumption of death

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Aschwin de Wolf

Bertrand Russell once said that “most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” One does not need to look any further than the many responses to Kerry Howley’s recent article about cryonics and hostile partners in … Continue reading →

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Ten ways to avoid being the next cryonics legal case

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Rudi Hoffman

Several of my clients and friends have asked me for observations regarding securing their cryonics arrangements even with contrary wishes of friends and relatives.  Given the recent Mary Robbins case in Colorado, and multiple previous cases available in some detail … Continue reading →

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How to protect yourself

Posted on February 23, 2010 by David Pizer

There has been some discussion about relatives causing suspensions to not take  place as the cryonics member gets older and how we cryonicists can protect  ourselves from this happening. Suspension interference happens more then most cryonicists realize. As a retired … Continue reading →

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The ethics of cryonics interference

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Aschwin de Wolf

Advocates of human cryopreservation argue that death is not an event but a process. Cryonics patients are stabilized at low temperatures in anticipation of a second medical opinion in the future. This raises an important ethical issue. What is the … Continue reading →

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Buried alive?

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Aschwin de Wolf

According to this news item the Alcor Life Extension Foundation is taking legal action against the brother and sister of an Alcor member who “denied the foundation’s request for his body and didn’t notify them of their brother’s death until … Continue reading →

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