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Job Opening: Medical Response Director

Alcor Life Extension Foundation is seeking a Medical Response Director (MRD) to join our high-functioning team. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the MRD is responsible for the postmortem stabilization and transport of Alcor patients to Scottsdale, Arizona. The MRD will coordinate with Alcor staff and contractors to enhance existing Standby, Stabilization, and Transport […]

Member Profile: Robert A. Freitas Jr.

Robert A. Freitas Jr.’s member profile from Cryonics 2nd Quarter 2022 has been added to the website. Freitas is the author of the 700-page book Cryostasis Revival: The Recovery of Cryonics Patients Through Nanomedicine and many other books and papers on molecular nanotechnology. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing […]

Member Profile: Carrie Wong

Carrie Wong’s member profile from Cryonics September 2014 has been added to the website. Part of the growing constituency of life extension advocates and activists in British Columbia, Carrie Wong splashed into cryonics head first upon learning about it when she attended a meeting of the Lifespan Society of British Columbia at the University of […]

Cryonics Magazine 3rd Quarter 2020

Cryonics Magazine 3rd Quarter 2020 is now available on the website. Featured articles include: How to Sustain an Organization for Over a Century. Part One: Corporate LongevityIn this two-part article, Max More reviews the track record of different types of organizations to survive for very long periods and what it means for Alcor. Interview with […]

Netflix Documentary: Hope Frozen

An English language version of the Netflix documentary Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice was released September 15, based on the 2015 Alcor cryopreservation of a 2-year-old Thai girl with brain cancer. A trailer can be found here: https://www.netflix.com/title/81072979 The documentary has received quite a bit of press coverage: The Sun, UK: “HOPE FROZEN: […]

Member/Patient Profile: Hal Finney

We are in the process of adding more Member Profiles to the website from back issues of Cryonics magazine. Hal Finney’s Member Profile from Cryonics, 2nd Quarter 2019, is actually a Patient Profile — Hal was cryopreserved in 2014. Hal, who had cryopreservation arrangements with the Alcor Foundation for over 20 years, was Bitcoin’s earliest-ever […]