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Alcor member A-3224 becomes Alcor’s 166th patient on March 2, 2019

A-3224, a confidential 85-year-old Alcor member with third-party neurocryopreservation arrangements, was declared legally dead on February 20, 2019 in San Francisco, California. A-3224, a third-party sign-up, was pronounced clinically deceased before any membership paperwork had been signed. Relatives placed him into a freezer at a funeral home in the San Francisco bay area while we […]

Alcor Member Profile: Michael Geisen

Minnesotan by birth and adventurer by nature, Michael Geisen is one of the hungry minds of the West Coast cryonics community, radiating life from his maverick spirit to his reputedly spry constitution. With his Alcor membership spanning two decades, combined with a robust, eclectic background in naval aviation and sales, he offers a unique perspective […]

Two new case reports recently added

Although noted under “What’s new on the Alcor website?”, this blog did not previously note the publication of two case reports: A-3079 case report, a 2017 whole body case from overseas, and A-2887, Herbert Drazen, a 2018 case from New York.

Biostasis.com

Biostasis.com is the world’s largest independent website about cryonics and medical human biostasis and official host of the Scientist’s Open Letter on Cryonics. Since its inception in 2007 by Aschwin de Wolf as the Depressed Metabolism blog and as the publishing platform of the non-profit Institute for Evidence-Based Cryonics (2008-2018), this website has been a […]

Alcor member A-1661 becomes Alcor’s 165th patient on January 2, 2019

A confidential Alcor member (A-1661) with neurocryopreservation arrangements, died suddenly in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 2, 2019. She was found by a friend who called Alcor immediately. The paramedics were called and she was transported to the hospital where she was legally pronounced deceased on January 2, 2019. Alcor worked with the Medical Examiner and […]

Alcor member A-1990 becomes Alcor’s 164th patient on October 30, 2018

Norman Hardy, a non-confidential, neurocryopreservation Alcor member was pronounced legally deceased on October 30, 2018, in Mountain View, CA. This was an important milestone for Alcor and for cryonics as this is the first time Death With Dignity legislation was used to reduce the potential ischemic damage that can result when additional biological damage is […]

Alcor member A-2811 becomes Alcor’s 163rd patient on October 17, 2018

Alcor member A-2811, a confidential, neurocryopreservation member, was pronounced legally deceased on October 17, 2018, in Scottsdale, Arizona and became Alcor’s 163rd patient. This patient was the father of an existing Alcor member who had relocated his father to Scottsdale in order to prevent ischemic damage associated with transit times and to take advantage of […]

Northern California “Cryofeast”

Sunday, December 16th – 3:00-7:00 pm Address: 381 N Fernwood Circle, Sunnyvale CA, 94085 Potluck – Please bring a dish to share There is a 381 S Fernwood Circle nearby. That house has a beautiful front garden, ours has very simple bushes.

Alcor member A-2067, becomes Alcor’s 162nd patient on September 18, 2018

Alcor member A-2067, a confidential, neurocryopreservation member, was pronounced on September 18, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona. He had been in an assisted-living facility for several years. Alcor requested a Suspended Animation-led standby on September 14. Because there was no on-call RN who could pronounce at his location in Utah, we successfully transported him from Utah […]