Recently Saul Kent has become a cryonics patient at Alcor. It was after a long and productive career of activism and accomplishment in areas related
Recently I received an email from Aschwin De Wolf. The New York cryonics group, he said, wants to revive the old Cryonics Society of New
The cryonics movement is often thought to have been launched with the publication of Robert Ettinger’s The Prospect of Immortality by Doubleday, which occurred on
For life—the life of any sentient creature—to be worth living, there must, as Robert Ettinger has often said, be a preponderance of satisfaction over dissatisfaction.
Review of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 “Would that I
Ken Hayworth’s idea of promoting a fixation-based alternative to brain cryopreservation is something I am highly sympathetic to overall, and I hope some progress in
Deconstructing Deathism: Answering a Recent Critique and Other Objections to Immortality First published in Physical Immortality 2(4) 11-16 (4th Q 2004) Sour Grapes and Sweet
Physical Immortality 2(2) 7 (2nd Q 2004) James Bedford’s freezing in January 1967 is usually regarded as the first true cryonic suspension, done immediately after
Physical Immortality 1(1) 7-10 (3rd Q 2003) This article is adapted from Chapter 2 of my book, Forever for All, which includes references The eighteenth-century