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CryoNet - Cryonics Mailing List
A free discussion mailing list on cryonicsrelated issues. Archives include twelve years of Internet discussion.
http://www11.pair.com/kqb/cryonet.html
CryoCare Foundation - Cryonics Services
CryoCare Foundation offers cryonics services. The site includes a good explanation of cryonics, with a large library of articles.
http://www.cryocare.org/

Extractions: CryoCare Foundation was established in 1993 to provide state-of-the-art human cryopreservation with assistance from two separate, independent businesses: BioPreservation, which provided our remote standby, transport, perfusion, and cooldown capability, and CryoSpan, which managed the long- term maintenance of patients at liquid-nitrogen temperature. Ultimately we hoped that growth in cryonics would encourage the formation of additional service providers. We envisaged a future in which our members would benefit as BioPreservation and CryoSpan found themselves in a free market, bidding against competitors. Unfortunately, we overestimated the potential growth and profitability of cryonics. Also we underestimated the tendency of volunteers and enthusiasts to burn out, especially in a high-stress occupation such as remote standby work. BioPreservation opted not to renew its contract with us in 1999, and no longer provides any cryonics services. CryoSpan still exists, but its majority shareholder wants to wind down the company and transfer the patients elsewhere. Consequently, CryoCare now finds itself without any service providers.
Cryonics Institute Cryonic Suspension Services
Cryonic suspension services information. Patients are frozen in cryostasis till medical advances can revive them. Site has 1000's of links, free books, latest news info, answers all readers' questions.
http://redirect-west.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.cryonics.org&y=02D461405687C
Cryonics And Cryptography
cryonics, Cryptography, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Clinical trials to evaluatecryonics. How can we tell if information theoretic death has taken place?
http://www.merkle.com/cryo/cryptoCryo.html

Extractions: by Ralph C. Merkle Xerox PARC , 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304. This paper was published in the Proceedings of the First Extropy Institute Conference, held at Sunnyvale, California in 1994. Some changes have been made to this version. A more general overview of the technical feasibility of cryonics is available at http://www.merkle.com/cryo/techFeas.html Most people, if they think of cryonics at all, think of Woody Allen in Sleeper , Sigorney Weaver in Aliens , or Mel Gibson in Forever Young . The hero, after spending decades or centuries in the deep freeze, thaws out gradually and somewhat painfully. Rather stiff from the cold, the warmth of the new era slowly penetrates into their chilled limbs until they at last stretch and look about the world with renewed interest and vitality. Not! All in all, our hero is not going to simply thaw out and walk off. And yet the literature on freezing injury, on ischemia, and on the other damage likely caused by a cryonic suspension forced me to conclude that cryonics would almost surely work: how can this be? Fundamentally, people are made of molecules. If those molecules are arranged in the right way, the person is healthy. If the're arranged in the wrong way, the person is unhealthy or worse. While a surgeon's knife does indeed rearrange molecular structure, it does so only in the crudest fashion. The living tissue itself is what really arranges and rearranges the intricate and subtle molecular structures that underlie life and health. When the tissue is too badly damaged, when intracellular levels of ATP are too low to provide the energy the tissue needs to function, when its own internal structure is disrupted, it can no longer heal itself. Today's surgical tools, gross and imprecise at the cellular and molecular level, can no more aid in this process than a wrecking ball could be used to repair a Swiss watch.
Wired News: Cryonics Over Dead Geeks' Bodies
Wired News article by Michelle Delio, based on an interview with Heather Pringle, author of the new book *The Mummy Congress Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead*.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45188,00.html

Extractions: 02:00 AM Jul. 20, 2001 PT Many geeks will survive death and go on to a glorious future assuming that medical science figures out a way to defrost and reanimate them. According to a new book, The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead , techies make up a large percentage of those who have signed up for cryonic suspension, an experimental procedure used to preserve legally dead bodies in the hopes that future medical breakthroughs will allow them to be brought back to life. Those who have opted for cryonic suspension will be packed in ice as soon as they die. Soon after, their body fluids will be replaced with a glycerin-based solution that acts as a kind of anti-freeze.
Cryonics Institute
Descripci³n de la crionizaci³n, t©cnica en estado de investigaci³n, para preservar individuos o cerebros a temperaturas muy bajas y revivirlos posteriormente cuando la tecnologa permita devolverles la salud.
http://www.cryonics.org/indexspanish.html
Cryonics/Belgium
Site for Belgian people with an interest in cryonics. Content appears to be totally in Dutch (Nederlands).Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonicsDeze site is opgezet voor mensen die geïnteresseerd zijn in cryonics. go to MSN.com,Click Here! Groups, cryonics/Belgium, cryonicsbelgium@groups.msn.com,
http://groups.msn.com/cryonicsbelgium

Extractions: cryonics/Belgium cryonicsbelgium@groups.msn.com Groups Home My Groups Language Help ... Tools Cryonics Belgium Welkom bij Cryonics Belgium Cryonics Institute, Michigan, USA Het leven is een fantastisch iets, daarom koesteren we het ook zo. Wij cryonisten, leggen ons niet zomaar neer bij onze biologische limieten en maken gebruik van rede en techniek om dit dierbare leven in stand te houden. Doorloop de pagina's op deze site en ontdek wat cryonics precies inhoudt *Oproep aan alle begrafenisondernemers, zie menubalk* Verbeke David Notice: Microsoft has no responsibility for the content featured in this Group. Click here for more info. MSN - More Useful Everyday MSN Home My MSN ... GetNetWise
Cryonics And Scientific American
cryonics and Scientific American. This is your brain on cryonics. Hardlyan appetizing description, and in fact totally inaccurate.
http://www.alcor.org/press2001SciAm.html

Extractions: Cryonics and Scientific American The growing popularity of cryonics is evidenced by a recent article in the September Scientific American titled "Nano nonsense and cryonics." While hardly a flattering title, the first paragraph is worse: Cryonicists believe that people can be frozen immediately after death and reanimated later when the cure for what ailed them is found. To see the flaw in this system, thaw out a can of frozen strawberries. During freezing, the water within each cell expands, crystallizes, and ruptures the cell membranes. When defrosted, all the intracellular goo oozes out, turning your strawberries into runny mush. This is your brain on cryonics. Hardly an appetizing description, and in fact totally inaccurate. Alcor has for years perfused cryoprotectants through the vasculature system of the brain (not easily done with a strawberry) which greatly reduce ice formation. Last year (in 2000) we adopted new cryoprotectants and ice blockers which effectively eliminate ice formation in a process called "vitrification." No ice, no ice damage, no runny mush. We were somewhat perturbed by Scientific American's grossly inaccurate description, but attributed it to simple ignorance. Ralph Merkle, an Alcor Board member who was mentioned in the article, submitted the following "Letter to the Editor" to correct their oversight:
THE FIRST IMMORTAL By James L. Halperin
By James L. Halperin; Del Rey, Random House, 1998, ISBN 0345420926. Fictionally explores nanotechnology's impact on the human future, special focus on cryonics, life extension. Has author forum, news, information, opinion poll. Random House
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/firstimmortal/

Extractions: ORDER ONLINE JANUARY 11, 1999 by a Web site's originator. With Backlink, anyone can post criticisms about any other Web sponsor's information or products, and browsers can now conveniently obtain the other side of the story. The cyber community hails the product as a boon to free speech and open information. Several organizations, including the Coalition of Trial Lawyers, the Church of Scientology, and the Tobacco Institute, issue press releases condemning Backlink as an invasion of privacy.
The European Cryonics Page
Information for Europeans interested in cryonics. Includes an extensive list of links to other European cryonics sites and a mailing list/forum for Europeans interested in cryonics, plus a large list of articles and discussions. The site and mailing list are in English.
http://www.transtopia.org/europe.html

Extractions: Cryonic suspension is an experimental procedure whereby patients who no longer can be kept alive with today's medical abilities are preserved at low temperature for treatment in the future. A "typical" cryonics procedure goes, or rather should go, as follows: after de-animation (clinical death, usually pronounced after cessation of heartbeat and breathing), the patient is released into the custody of the ( local ) cryonics emergency team and/or a specially trained (local) mortician , and cooled with ice, or, better still, in a portable ice bath (PIB) with a spray cooling device ("squid") which further accelerates the temperature descend, to approx. 5-10*C. During cooldown, the patient's head always has top priority, for obvious reasons. If the patient hasn't been dead for more than an hour or so, and if his body is still largely intact, he is simultaneously re-oxigenated (optional) and treated with various medications, including anticoagulants like
Cryonics
cryonics Europe. cryonics Europe is a support and discussion group, based in Sussex, for people in Britain and the rest
http://info.latech.edu/~mike/cryonics.html

Extractions: Many people confuse the terms cryogenics, cryobiology, suspended animation, cryonic suspension, and cryonics. Here are my definitions of these terms, which I believe are pretty much standard. A (currently non-standard) medical technique for attempting to prevent the permanent cessation of life in individuals on the brink of death. It involves the use of low temperatures to halt metabolic decay. A person who is cryonically suspended can
CRYONICS: THE ISSUES
An introduction by Canadian Ben Best, 8 printed pages.Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonics Introductionscryonics The Issues. (An Overview). by Ben Best CONTENTS LINKS TOSECTIONS BY TOPIC. I. cryonics PURPOSE AND DEFINITION. As defined
http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/cryiss.html

Extractions: by Ben Best CRYONICS: PURPOSE AND DEFINITION CRYONICS AND DEATH CAN CRYONICS WORK? DOES CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURE DESTROY STRUCTURE? ... FURTHER INFORMATION As defined in WEBSTER'S NEW UNIVERSAL UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY, cryonics is "the practice of freezing the body of a person who has just died in order to preserve it for possible resuscitation in the future, as when a cure for the disease that caused death has been found." If future molecular-repair technology can repair damage caused by cryopreservation (including freezing-damage), cure all diseases and stop (and reverse) biological aging then cryonics is the "first aid" which can preserve contemporary humans for future science. Cryonics, in other words, may be the gateway to a future world of eternal youth and prosperity. Cryonics is to be distinguished from cryogenics , the physics of low temperature, and cryobiology , the science of low-temperature effects on biological systems. Use of the word "cryogenics" to mean "cryonics" is a quick tip-off that the speaker or writer is ignorant of the subject of cryonics.
ABCNEWS.com : Medicine Of The Future: Cryonics
From ABCNEWS.com, an article on the cryonics Institute, including a link to video.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsTonight/wnt010208_cryonics_feature.h

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Cryonics -- TRANS TIME, Inc. Home Page -- Cryonic Suspension Service Provider
A cryonics service provider in San Leandro, California.
http://www.transtime.com/

Extractions: Cryonics is the science of placing humans and animals into a low-temperature, biologically unchanging state, immediately after clinical death, with the expectation that advances in medical technology may eventually enable full restoration to life and health. TRANS TIME is a pioneering cryonics service provider, based in San Leandro, California. If you are looking for information on TRANS TIME , cryonics, or websites covering related topics, you've come to the right place! In these pages you can find (or find your way to) everything you ever wanted to know about the most fascinating long-term scientific research project man has ever undertaken. For an introduction to our company and information on how to sign up for cryonic suspension services, visit our Introduction to TRANS TIME, INC.
Www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/crymemes.txt
From hkhenson@cup.portal.com (H Keith Henson) Newsgroups sci.cryonics Subjectcryonics, religions and memetics Date Fri, 10 Dec 93 235313 PST Organization
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/crymemes.txt
F A Albin Sons
Independent funeral directors providing personal service, prepaid funerals, embalming and cryonics. Located in London, United Kingdom.
http://www.albins.sageweb.co.uk/

Extractions: Albins Funeral Directors Home About Us Pre-Arranged Funerals Memorial Garden Our Website An Independent Funeral Directors. Arthur Stanley House 52 Culling Road London SE16 2TN Phone : Fax : E-mail : Barry Albin
Cryonics FAQ List Part 1
4. Controversy surrounding cryonics. 41. Why do cryobiologists have such a lowopinion of cryonics? 7. Cost of cryonics. 7-1. Why does cryonics cost so much?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/html/0018.1.h

Extractions: Last Modified Fri Nov 1 12:35:50 1996 the end of Section 1 for restrictions on redistribution. Cryonic suspension is an experimental procedure whereby patients who can no longer be kept alive with today's medical abilities are preserved at low temperatures for treatment in the future. Send comments about this list to Tim Freeman (tim@infoscreen.com). The words "I" and "me" in these answers refer to opinions of Tim Freeman, which may or may not be shared by others. There is much information available as cryomsg's. You can fetch cryomsg "n" by sending mail to kqb@cryonet.org with the subject line "CRYOMSG n", where "n" is a message number. You can get a current version of this entire FAQ list by fetching cryomsg " ". You can get a current version of section "n" of this FAQ list by fetching cryomsg " 0018.n ". Also, all cryomsg's referenced in this FAQ (and a few others) are available by anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.cmu.edu, directory "/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/archive" . You will need to give the entire directory path at once to FTP, rather than the commands "cd /afs" "cd cs.cmu.edu" and so forth, because the directories at the beginning of the path are protected from anonymous FTP access. There is more about this in the answer to question Many FAQs, including this one, are available via anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu in the directory
Ralph Merkle's Home Page
Nanotechnolgy researcher, Alcor Director (cryonics), Principal Fellow of Zyvex, advisor to the Foresight Institute, executive editor of the journal Nanotechnology, coinventor of public key cryptography, previously a Research scientist at Xerox PARC.
http://www.merkle.com/

Extractions: I'm moving on from Zyvex, see the press release My current research interest is molecular manufacturing (also called nanotechnology ). The central objective of molecular manufacturing is the design, modeling, and manufacture of systems that can inexpensively fabricate most products that can be specified in molecular detail. This would include, for example, molecular logic elements connected in complex patterns to form molecular computers, molecular robotic arms or Stewart platforms (e.g., positional devices ) able to position individual atoms or clusters of atoms under programmatic control (useful if we wish to make molecular computers and other molecular manufacturing systems), and a wide range of other molecular devices. A central concept for achieving low cost in molecular manufacturing is that of a self replicating journal Nanotechnology , (published by IOPP ). I
WWW.EXTROPIE.DE & WWW.TRANSHUMAN.DE Startseite
German website about transhumanism, cryonics, life extension, and nanotechnology.
http://www.transhuman.de/
More Cryonics-Related Web Sites
More cryonicsRelated Web Sites. Meet People on the Web Who Can TellYou About cryonics. Other cryonics-Related Links. Open Directory
http://www.cryonet.org/other.html

Extractions: Open Directory (DMOZ) links on Cryonics A web-based cryonics forum moderated by Rick Potvin The Longevity Meme Discussion group for people who are Considering Cryonics (Forum requires cookies enabled in browser.) Southern California Cryonics Events Announcement List (Forum requires cookies enabled in browser.) Text and images on the November 1998 conference on breakthroughs at 21st Century Medicine Arizonans for Death with Dignity includes updates on legislation, information on advance directives (Living Wills and Health Care Powers of Attorney) and many related links. Autopsy Choice is an isue for cryonicists because the time lost and organ damage caused by an autopsy can prevent any possibility of eventual reanimation via cryonics.

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