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Chana Phaedra on HealthHaven radio show

Please join Chana Phaedra as she speaks with Alcor member Larry McElhinney on his daily HealthHaven live webcast this Friday, June 13, 2008, at 12:00 p.m.

June 10, 2008December 16, 2018 by Chana Phaedra1 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death

Immortality and cryonics

In “Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction,” (in: Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy) John Martin Fischer and Ruth

June 8, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf2 Min Reading
Cryonics

Intranasal administration of medications

Experiments investigating the effects of medication administration via the nose are becoming increasingly common in scientific literature. Direct olfactory transport to the brain and the

June 7, 2008December 16, 2018 by Chana Phaedra2 Min Reading
Cryonics, Health, Neuroscience

Nosy Neuroprotection: Intranasal Administration of Neuroprotective Agents to the Brain

Introduction In everyday or emergency medical practice, intranasal (IN) administration of therapeutic agents (i.e., drug delivery via the nose) offers several advantages over oral, intravenous,

June 7, 2008February 12, 2018 by Chana Phaedra15 Min Reading
Cryonics, Health, Neuroscience

Wide therapeutic window for melatonin in stroke

Neuroprotective agents for stroke continue to fail in clinical trials. One important reason is that the therapeutic window for many of those agents is too

June 5, 2008 by Chana Phaedra5 Min Reading
Death, Neuroscience, Science

Albert Einstein's brain and information-theoretic death

“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…[We] never cease to

June 1, 2008December 16, 2018 by Greg Jordan6 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death

Why is cryonics so unpopular?

In his 1998 essay “The Failure of the Cryonics Movement” (part 1, part 2), Saul Kent stresses that cryonics has remained so unpopular because nobody

May 29, 2008January 22, 2019 by Aschwin de Wolf7 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death

Ev Cooper's cryonics classic published online

Few, if any, cryonicists today can retrace their personal interest in cryonics to Evan Cooper. Despite the broader recognition of Robert Ettinger’s book, “The Prospect

May 27, 2008 by Chana Phaedra3 Min Reading
Cryonics, Science

Depressed Metabolism

Summary The most important objective in cryonics after pronouncement of legal death is to drop metabolism as fast as possible to protect the brain and

May 27, 2008January 20, 2019 by Aschwin de Wolf16 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death

Life not death

The idea that cryonics does not involve the freezing of “dead” people but is form of low temperature care to prevent death is almost as

May 23, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf3 Min Reading
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