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Human cryo-anabiosis

Recent advances with the use of hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide and “hibernation induction triggers” to depress metabolism in animal models have  renewed interest  in the

November 9, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf2 Min Reading
Cryonics

Armand Karow – Goal: Human Cryo-Anabiosis

GOAL: HUMAN CRYO-ANABIOSIS by Armand Karow, Jr. Part I – SHORT TERM PRESERVATION BY HYPOTHERMIA Deep cooling (without actual freezing) an organism has been discussed

November 9, 2008January 20, 2019 by Aschwin de Wolf15 Min Reading
Cryonics

Cloning of frozen mice and cryonics

Japanese scientists have managed to clone a mouse that had been frozen without any cryoprotection for 16 years at minus 20 degrees Celsius. The researchers

November 6, 2008December 16, 2018 by Veronique Struis2 Min Reading
Health

Help Kronos' Chris Heward fight his cancer

Chris Heward past away on January 10, 2009. This post will remain here to remember Chris and his struggle against cancer. John Schloendorn, who is

November 6, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf5 Min Reading
Cryonics

Interview with Alcor readiness coordinator Regina Pancake

This is the second in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. The first interview was with Cryonics Institute

November 1, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf14 Min Reading
Death, Science

Lindbergh and Carrel's quest to live forever

It’s difficult to follow up a best-selling book about the cultural history of the penis, but David M. Friedman has a knack for engaging readers

October 30, 2008December 16, 2018 by Chana Phaedra7 Min Reading
Arts & Living, Death

Famous preserved body parts

The website TopTenz recently published a list of the Top 10 Most Famous Preserved Body Parts. The list includes Galileo’s finger and Albert Einstein’s brain.

October 28, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf1 Min Reading
Cryonics

My road to a possible future

My experiences with death began in 1974, when I was age 10. On Labor Day Sunday, while watching the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon, my father

October 26, 2008 by William Teeter7 Min Reading
Death

The secular case against immortality

In 2003 George Hart published an article called “The Immortal’s Dilemma: Decontructing Eternal Life” , making a secular case against immortality.  Hart mainly uses logical

October 22, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf6 Min Reading
Death

Death is nothing to us

The idea that death gives meaning to life is widespread but does not reflect careful reasoning, and is often a  desperate rationalization of human mortality.

October 19, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf3 Min Reading
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