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The March 2013 issue of Cryonics magazine features an article by Alcor CEO Max More called “The Past, Present, and Future of Membership Dues.” Max answers questions such as “Why do Alcor members have to pay membership dues? What are they used for? Why do I also have to pay CMS (Comprehensive Member Standby) fees? Why can’t we run the organization using income from doing cryopreservations and abolish dues?… Read more »
The February 2013 issue of Cryonics magazine features an upgraded presentation of Alcor’s membership data, including a complete breakdown of US membership by state and international membership by country. The editor further weighs in on the new membership statistics and discusses what has changed since the last time Alcor published a state-by-state overview. Alcor staff member Michael Perry reviews Michael… Read more »
The January 2013 issue of Cryonics magazine contains a detailed report of our successful 2012 Alcor-40 conference, including a summary of the presentations of all speakers. This issue also features an extensive review of chemopreservation as an alternative to cryopreservation by Cryonics magazine editor Aschwin de Wolf. Among the topics discussed are the necessity of functional assays to evaluate progress… Read more »
In the November-December issue of Cryonics magazine former Alcor President Michael Darwin takes aim at the (in his eyes) mistaken idea that preservation of the exact concentration and location of neurotransmitters is important for long-term memory and identity, Stephen Bridge reviews Stephen Cave’s recent book “Immortality: the Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization,” and editor Aschwin de… Read more »
The September-October issue of Cryonics magazine mostly focuses on the brain. Ben Best contributes a review of the recent Portland symposium on cryonics and dementia and provides details about the presentations and the panel discussion that concluded this first-ever event. This issue contains no fewer than two reviews of Sebastian Seung’s new book “Connectome.” Aschwin de Wolf and Mike Perry… Read more »
On March 22, 2012, Alcor co-founder Fred Chamberlain III was cryopreserved. The July-August issue of Cryonics magazine features the cryopreservation case report, an older Cryonics article by Fred about making cryonics arrangements, and a poem from the vintage 1971 cryonics publication The Hourglass. Alcor member, economist, and writer of Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More… Read more »
The May-June Cryonics magazine cover article, “The Allocation of Long Term Care Costs at Alcor” by Board member Ralph Merkle presents a conceptual and quantitative analysis of the allocation of storage costs between neuro and whole body patients. Most Alcor members are aware that long term care costs for neuro patients are lower than for whole body patients but how are these… Read more »
The March-April issue of Cryonics features an extensive treatment of protecting one’s cryonics arrangements against inflation through life insurance. Insurance agent and Alcor member Rudi Hoffman makes the case for “superfunding” your cryonics arrangements to keep pace with the rising costs of advanced medical procedures. The author explains the differences between the major forms of life insurance (term life, whole… Read more »
The January-February 2012 issue of Cryonics marks the return of Alcor’s magazine as a bi-monthly professionally printed publication. This issue features two major articles on cryonics and brain-threatening disorders. The first article, by Cryonics editor Aschwin de Wolf, provides a framework for thinking about identity-destroying brain diseases and discusses what Alcor members can do to prevent them from threatening your… Read more »
The 2011 4th quarter issue of Cryonics magazine is dedicated to the “father of cryonics,” Robert Ettinger, who was cryopreserved on July 23, 2011. Alcor staff member Mike Perry contributes an historical piece on Ettinger and Mark Plus and Charles Platt write about his influence on contemporary cryonics, futurism, and the cryobiology community. Cryonics editor Aschwin de Wolf compiled Robert… Read more »
