Cryonics advocate Eugen Leitl puts forward some hard-hitting and thought-provoking observations about cryonics (reminiscent of Mike Darwin’s more recent thoughts on the subject): Cryonics, like
The biggest obstacle to the acceptance of cryonics is medical myopia; the idea that someone who has been pronounced dead by contemporary medical criteria will
Alcor’s recent news item about its 2009 Annual Board Meeting and Strategic Meeting contains a number of encouraging statements. On the front of institutional reform,
Over the years, experimental science has developed a standard protocol for the testing of medical hypotheses using animal models which calls for the use of
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