See also: Complete List of Alcor Cryopreservations

1967

Dr. James H. Bedford | 12 Jan 1967 | Whole Body | See: The First Suspension | Dear Dr. Bedford (and those who will care for you after I do) | Evaluation of the Condition of Dr. James H. Bedford After 24 Years of Cryonic Suspension | Dr. Bedford Gets a New Suit | Note: The cryopreservation was carried out by affiliates of the Cryonics Society of California and the patient was transferred to Alcor September 22, 1987, from son Norman Bedford. A full account of the cryopreservation (using pseudonyms and containing inaccuracies) can be found in the book We Froze the First Man, Nelson, R.F. and Stanley, S., Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1968 (Dr. Harold Greene in the book is in fact Dr. James H. Bedford).

1976

Fred Chamberlain Jr. | 16 Jul 1976 | Neuro | Alcor’s First Cryopreservation

1987

Dora Kent | 11 Dec 1987 | Neuro | See: Dora Kent: Questions and Answers | Our Finest Hours: Notes On the Dora Kent Crisis

1988

Robert Binkowski | 08 May 1988 | Whole Body | Case Report: This case resulted in a legal tangle with the California Department of Health Services that took two and a half years to resolve.

Richard Clair Jones aka “Dick Clair” | 12 Dec 1988 | Whole Body | Case Report: Dick Clair, the creator of the Facts of Life TV show, was involved in a lawsuit with the California Department of Health Services that established the legality of cryonics in California. It was also necessary to obtain a restraining order against the hospital to force it to cooperate with Alcor in carrying out Dick’s wishes.

1989

Eugene T. Donovan | 21 Mar 1989 | Neuro | Case Report: Personal account of a family’s involvement in the cryopreservation of their father.

1990

Arlene Frances Fried | 09 Jun 1990 | Neuro | Alcor Patient Profile | Case Report (one of the most comprehensive studies of a cryopreservation case ever written) | See also: Her Blue Eyes Will Sparkle, a personal account by Arlene’s daughter.

Rocco Schiavello | 22 Jun 1990 | Whole Body | Case Report: The first Australian cryopreservation.

1991

Jerry Leaf | 10 Jul 1991 | Whole Body | Case Report: A major figure in the development of cryonics unexpectedly suffers cardiac arrest.

1992

Michael Friedman | 01 Jun 1992 | Brain and rest of body stored separately | Case Report: An Alcor member is murdered (and worse yet, shot in the head).

Jim Glennie | 24 Jun 1992 | Neuro | Case Report: An unusually extensive non-technical report on a near-textbook case | See also A Well-Loved Man, a personal account by Jim’s wife, Mary Margaret Glennie.

James Hourihan | 27 Jul 1992 | Neuro | Case Report: An extended standby in Massachusetts.

1995

Stanislaw Penksa | 26 Nov 1995 Whole Body | Case Report

James Gallagher | 12 Dec 1995 Neuro | Case Report: extensive case report of the first cryopreservation by CryoCare, which was transferred to Alcor Jan. 24, 2001

1996

Henrietta Popper | 16 May 1996 | Neuro | Case Report | Cryopreservation by CryoCare, transferred to Alcor Jan. 24, 2001

1997

Edward W. Kuhrt | 08 Feb 1997 | Neuro | Case Report (PDF)

Joseph Cannon | 20 Feb 1997 | Neuro | Case Report in Cryonics, 3rd quarter, 1997, page 15

1999

Robert Russo | 25 Aug 1999 | Brain | Accepted as Alcor Patient November, 2007 | Case Report in Cryonics, 4th quarter, 1999, page 34 (Patient B)

2000

Gregory Grapski | 13 Jan 2000 | Whole Body

FM-2030 | 08 Jul 2000 | Neuro | Patient Profile (PDF)

2002

Eleanor Williams | 03 March 2002 | Separate neuro and whole body | Case Report (PDF)

2003

Dr. Thomas Munson | 24 Feb 2003 | Neuro | Case Summary

2006

Anita Riskin | 06 Feb 2006 Whole Body | Case summary

2008

Rose Selkovitch | 29 Mar 2008 | Neuro | Case summary

2009

Orville Richardson | 19 February 2009 | Neuro | Case summary | Patient received at Alcor September 3, 2010

Michael Miller | 3 December 2009 | Whole Body | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

2010

Mary Robbins | 9 February 2010 | Neuro | Case summary | update

David Hayes | 14 February 2010 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

Chihiro Asaumi | 14 April 2010 | Whole Body | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

Wesley du Charme | 15 April 2010 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF) | Alcor Patient Profile

Paul Garfield | 12 May 2010 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

Peter Toma | 24 June 2010 | Whole Body | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

Darius Nelson | 27 June 2010 | Whole Body | Case summary

James Stevenson | 15 December 2010 | Neuro | Case summary

2011

Dennis Ross | 30 Oct 2011 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF) and CT scan

2012

Fred Chamberlain III | 22 Mar 2012 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF) and CT scan

John Monts | 31 Oct 2012 | Neuro | Case summary

2013

Kim Suozzi | 17 Jan 2013 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF) and CT scan

2014

Larry Sharp | 9 Jan 2014 | Neuro | Case summary

Robert Revitz | 15 August 2014 | Neuro | Case summary

Hal Finney | 28 August 2014 | Neuro | Alcor Patient Profile

Camelia Petrozzini | 1 December 2014 | Neuro | Case summary

Dr. Stephen Coles | 3 December 2014 | Brain only | Case summary

Daniel Parker | 16 December 2014 | Neuro | Case summary

Frank Simmross | 19 December 2014 | Neuro | Case summary

2015

Matheryn Naovaratpong | 8 January 2015 | Neuro | Case summary

Dr. Laurence Pilgeram | 10 April 2015 | Neuro | Case summary

Mariette Selkovitch | 5 May 2015 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

Du Hong | 30 May 2015 | Neuro | Case summary

James Baglivo | 25 August 2015 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

Ronald Selkovitch | 28 August 2015 | Neuro | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

Cormac Seachoy | 16 December 2015 | Whole Body | Case summary

Mark Lee Miller | 31 December 2015 | Whole Body | Case summary | Case report (PDF)

2016

Katie Kars Friedman | 15 March 2016 | Neuro | Case summary | Alcor Member Profile

Neil Freer | 25 March 2016 | Whole Body | Case summary

Scott Toth | 4 October 2016 | Neuro | Case summary

2017

Meihuei Kao | 22 February 2017 | Whole Body | Case Summary | Case Report (PDF)

Jo Ann Martin | 25 May 2017 | Whole Body | Case Summary

Robert Whitaker | 3 June 2017 | Neuro | Case Summary | Case Report (PDF)

Alex Arevalo | 20 October 2017 | Neuro | Case Summary

2018

Norma D. Peterson | 27 February 2018 | Neuro | Case Summary | Case Report (PDF)

Timothy Hubley | 13 May 2018 | Neuro | Case Summary | Case Report (PDF)

Ron Putirka | 22 July 2018 | Neuro | Case Summary

Herbert Drazen | 13 August 2018 | Whole Body | Case Summary | Case Report (PDF)

Dale Allsop | 24 August 2018 | Neuro | Case Summary

Norman Hardy | 30 October 2018 | Neuro | Case Summary | Case Report (PDF) A medical aid in dying case

2019

Jerry Searcy | 24 March 2019 | Neuro | Case Summary

Bahareh Bina | 29 April 2019 | Neuro | Case Summary

Arthur Naiman | 13 May 2019 | Whole Body | Case Summary

Gordon Norman | 26 May 2019 | Whole Body | Case Summary

Jianhua Ma | 8 August 2019 | Whole Body | Case Summary

2020

John N. Marincic | 14 January 2020 | Whole Body | Case Summary

Stephen Van Sickle | 29 May 2020 | Neuro

Monica Stephens | 18 June 2020 | Neuro

David Harker | 29 Aug 2020 | Neuro

2021

Harry Chesley

Wendy Jones

David Kekich

Zehou Li

Gregory Strom

2022

John Crawford

James Davis

Kenneth DeWandel

Peter Eckersley

Dale Hemming

S. Loraine Hull-Smithers, PhD | Patient Profile

Tal Noble

Jacques St. Clair

Mathew Sullivan

2023

Dr. Steven B. Harris | Patient Profile

H. William Hendrickson

Saul Kent

Don Laughlin

Diego D. Merino

Roy J. Yowell

G. Daniel Zuras, Jr.

2024

Joseph Hovey

Arthur McCombs

Thomas Munson, Jr.

David Pizer

Cheryl Spitzer