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LongeCity Interview with Aschwin de Wolf

By Sven Bulterijs for LongeCity, February 19, 2017 How has the cryopreservation procedure evolved since the first human was placed in cryostasis? The most important

February 19, 2017December 19, 2019 by Aschwin de Wolf10 Min Reading
Cryonics, Science, Society

Who Decides What We Can Do With Our Body (and Brain)?

Statement on the High Court ruling concerning 14 year-old cancer victim’s right to cryonics Click here for PDF Our hearts go out to the young

November 20, 2016November 20, 2016 by Aschwin de Wolf5 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Bitcoin and Cryonics

(PDF version) In this article, I want to introduce you to Bitcoin, a topic that fascinates me almost as much as cryonics. Many Cryonics readers

October 15, 2016June 4, 2019 by Keegan Macintosh29 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Getting the Word Out

For this month’s column, I have been asked to write about how to start a viable and well-attended local life extension group. I suppose the

October 11, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh10 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Bootstrap Personhood

(Or, Corporations are People, Too…) In my last article, I looked at some historical and contemporary examples of legal activism aimed at expanding legal personhood to beings not

October 3, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh11 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

We Shall Overcome

Legal Approaches Toward Cryonics Patient Personhood The current medico-legal definition of death creates numerous obstacles to the successful resuscitation and reintegration of cryonics patients: our

October 1, 2016October 1, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh19 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death, Society

The Valley of the Shadow of Death

The “uncanny valley” is a theory described in 1970 by robotics professor Masahiro Mori which posits that as a robot’s appearance becomes more human-like, observer

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh12 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death, Society

Reintegration, Personalized

The latter half of therapeutic cryopreservation involves three “R”s: resuscitation, rehabilitation, and reintegration. Of the three, reintegration receives the least attention as to its content, so permit me to deconstruct

September 27, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh11 Min Reading
Cryonics

Are cryonics patients….property?

Doodeward v. Spence, a 1908 case out of the High Court of Australia[1], addressed a very difficult question: could human remains be property? The facts

September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh9 Min Reading
Science, Society

The Multi-Headed Hydra

This article explores some of the regulatory challenges facing those who would bring rejuvenation biotechnologies, like those pursued by Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh16 Min Reading
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