41. Cryonics Survey ABSTRACT. A consumer survey designed to measure familiarity with and attitudes toward the idea of cryonics was conducted over the internet. http://www.jetpress.org/volume3/badger.htm

Journal of Evolution and Technology . December 1998. Vol. 3 AN EXPLORATORY SURVEY EXAMINING THE FAMILIARITY WITH AND ATTITUDES TOWARD CRYONIC PRESERVATION W. Scott Badger, Ph.D. ABSTRACT A consumer survey designed to measure familiarity with and attitudes toward the idea of cryonics was conducted over the internet. A total of 517 responses were examined in an effort to clarify the relationships between (1 the reported level of familiarity vs. the accuracy of responses, and (2) demographic variables vs. attitudes and dispositions toward cryonics. Results indicate that (1) those claiming superior familiarity do not have superior knowledge, (2) a number of those surveyed have significant misconceptions regarding cryonics, and (3) important attitudinal differences exist between demographically diverse groups INTRODUCTION Cryonics has been defined as "the technology for freezing a person after a terminal illness or a fatal accident, in the hope that medical science will be able to revive that person in the future, when life extension and anti-aging have become a reality". Cryonic suspension is an emergency medical procedure designed to save lives (much like Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation), a last-ditch effort to forestall irreversible brain damage. Since the first individual was cryonically preserved in 1967, a handful of firms have sprung up offering cryopreservation and/or storage services to the general public.

42. *** Cryonics Association Australia *** home, policy. procedures. articles. contacts. links. Links Page. cryonics. Alcor Life Extension Foundation American cryonics Society CryoNet http://prix.pricom.com.au/caa/links.html

Links Page Cryonics Alcor Life Extension Foundation American Cryonics Society CryoNet - Cryonics Mailing List Cryonet Archives ... Timeship Cryonics Nanotechnology Foresight Institute Long and medium term goals in molecular nanotechnology Nanotechnology Database Nanotechnology ... Nano Industries Other Amazon.com A Glance - "The Science of Aliens Anders Transhuman Page Del Rey Books (Science Fiction and Fantasy) Extropy Institute ... The Prometheus Project (Terminated - for historical interest only) WTA The World Transhumanist Association KwMap.com - browse the Keyword Map of prix.pricom.com.au Graphics by Art for the web

43. Future.newsday.com / Cryonics cryonics in a Deep Freeze Predictions from the past that haven t come true yet Armitage described cryonics as pseudoscience. http://future.newsday.com/1/fbak0205.htm

Newsday Photo, 1968/Dick Krause Frederick Horn, above left, who owned the St. James Funeral Home, and Curtis Henderson, president of the Cryonics Society of New York, inspect a capsule in which a dead Bronx man would be frozen. (Editor's Note: The current owner of the St. James Funeral Home has no connection with cryonics.) Cryonics in a Deep Freeze Predictions from the past that haven't come true ... yet By Sidney C. Schaer Staff Writer T HE WORD "cryonics" the practice of freezing a dead body in hopes of someday reviving it didn't enter the dictionary until 1967. But 200 years earlier, Ben Franklin was dreaming of a frozen ride to immortality. Writing to a French colleague, Franklin mused: "I wish it were possible . . . to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence . . . "In all probability, we live in a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to see such an art brought in our time to its perfection." Today, a tiny group of biologists is still trying to bring cryonics "to its perfection." A far larger group of debunkers, however, says cryonics is little more than bogus science. Its promise, they say, will never be fulfilled.

44. Ucs cryonics, Society, Universal cryonics Society. Click UCS and come enter the world of The Universal cryonics Society. UCS. WebStat hit counter. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vinforte/ucs.htm

Cryonics, Society, Universal Cryonics Society Welcome to the Web Site of The Universal Cryonics Society We can be reached at 11 Burningbush Lane Firth of Fife, Scotland Tel. 011 44 41 785-9003 The Universal Cryonics Society was established in 1889 Our chief operating officers include: Seamus MacDuff, Chief Executive Officer Shivas Irons, M.D., PhD, Research Director Agatha McNaughton, Technical Sales Director Click "UCS' and come enter the world of The Universal Cryonics Society. UCS

45. Cryonics And Cryptography cryonics, Cryptography, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation, a paper by Ralph Merkle, Ph.D. http://merkle.com/merkleDir/cryptoCryo.html

Cryonics , Cryptography, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation by Ralph C. Merkle Xerox PARC , 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304. This paper was published in the Proceedings of the First Extropy Institute Conference, held at Sunnyvale, California in 1994. Some changes have been made to this version. A more general overview of the technical feasibility of cryonics is available at http://www.merkle.com/cryo/techFeas.html Introduction Most people, if they think of cryonics at all, think of Woody Allen in Sleeper , Sigorney Weaver in Aliens , or Mel Gibson in Forever Young . The hero, after spending decades or centuries in the deep freeze, thaws out gradually and somewhat painfully. Rather stiff from the cold, the warmth of the new era slowly penetrates into their chilled limbs until they at last stretch and look about the world with renewed interest and vitality. Not! All in all, our hero is not going to simply thaw out and walk off. And yet the literature on freezing injury, on ischemia, and on the other damage likely caused by a cryonic suspension forced me to conclude that cryonics would almost surely work: how can this be? Molecules and people Fundamentally, people are made of molecules. If those molecules are arranged in the right way, the person is healthy. If the're arranged in the wrong way, the person is unhealthy or worse. While a surgeon's knife does indeed rearrange molecular structure, it does so only in the crudest fashion. The living tissue itself is what really arranges and rearranges the intricate and subtle molecular structures that underlie life and health. When the tissue is too badly damaged, when intracellular levels of ATP are too low to provide the energy the tissue needs to function, when its own internal structure is disrupted, it can no longer heal itself. Today's surgical tools, gross and imprecise at the cellular and molecular level, can no more aid in this process than a wrecking ball could be used to repair a Swiss watch.

46. Cryonics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia cryonics. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. cryonics has traditionally been dismissed by mainstream cryobiology, of which it is arguably a part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Deutsch Cryonics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cryonics is the practice of preserving organisms, or at least their brains , for possible future revival by storing them at cryogenic temperatures where metabolism and decay are almost completely stopped. A person held in such a state (either frozen or vitrified ) is said to be cryopreserved . Barring social disruptions of their cryopreservation, a perfectly vitrified person is expected to remain physically viable for a period of about 10,000 years, after which time cosmic ray damage has been thought to be irreparable. Many scientists in the field, most notably Ralph Merkle and Brian Wowk , hold that molecular nanotechnology has the potential to extend even this limit many times over. Most scientists, however, contend that cryonics is an interesting technical idea but currently little more than a scam, that current "patients" will never be successfully revived, and that decades of research, at least, must occur before cryonics is to be a legitimate field with a hope of success. Probably the most famous cryopreserved patient is Ted Williams . The popular urban legend that Walt Disney was cryopreserved is false; he was cremated, and interred at

47. CryoCare Autoforward Page CryoCare Foundation offers cryonics services. The site includes a good explanation of cryonics, with a large library of articles. http://www.cryocare.org/

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48. Cryonics Features cryonics a futurist technology offering us a chance to live indefinitely Cymbeline RefaldaVillamin They are opting for cryonics. http://www.stpauls.ph/homelife/11_November 2001/November Features.htm

Features CRYONICS a futurist technology offering us a chance to live indefinitely Cymbeline Refalda-Villamin There may be a million and one pleasurable reasons to keep wanting to live indefinitely. But there is one most valid reason-God meant it to be that we should have everlasting life. Those who have died will rise again on Judgement Day. Some people who are opting for cryonic suspension (frozen state of clinically dead persons who hope to be revived in some future time when medical science will have found cure for their illness) believe they may rather opt to stay alive when God comes on Judgement Day, when it does not really matter if you are alive, dead, or frozen. Cryonics Cryonics is popularly known as freezing the dead. Actually it is not dead storage. Patients who are terminally ill are preserved at liquid nitrogen temperature to stabilize their condition, so that after some 100 to 200 years when nanomedicine (an offspring of nanotechnology, the science of atoms and molecules) is perfected, their preserved brain will be attached to a rebuilt body with organs made of the same DNA they had at death. Cryonics is extending and preserving life rather than reversing death. This concept may be shocking to many people. What happens to the souls of these people during cryonic suspension? Will they be at peace? In God's view and perhaps in the spiritual consciousness of these suspended humans, 300 years are only the blink of an eyelash and present no more difficulty than two and a half hours. God does not punish people for trying to stay alive. If cryonics technology is someday perfected, God meant it to be. It is God who decides when He wants people to die.

49. Info.latech.edu/~mike/cryonics.html info.latech.edu/~mike/cryonics1.html American cryonics SocietyAmerican cryonics Society. Freezing people for more than three decades What is cryonics? cryonics is a recently coined word referring http://info.latech.edu/~mike/cryonics.html

50. The Frozen Home Of Cryonics http://hem.passagen.se/cryonics/

51. European Cryonics Page Information for Europeans interested in cryonics. Includes an extensive list of links to other European cryonics sites and a mailing list/forum for Europeans interested in cryonics, plus a large list of articles and discussions. The site and mailing list are in English. http://www.transtopia.org/europe.html

52. Nanotechnology And Cryonics cryonics. This process is known as cryonics. Until the mid1980 s, the probability of cryonics being successful had to be considered as very slim. http://www.webcom.com/cfsc/nanocryo.html

NANOTECHNOLOGY In the final analysis, aging and death have only one cause: for whatever reason, the atoms and molecules in our bodies have moved from their proper positions; and other molecules and atoms have moved into positions where they should not be. The molecular machinery in our bodies maintains our lives by handling molecules at the molecular level. A molecular machine is a large molecule that manipulates other molecules, one at a time. We put random assortments of molecules, in the form of food, into our bodies; but these molecules are useless without the intricate molecular machinery in our bodies that sorts through the molecules, rearranging them as necessary, and transporting them to their proper places. When we take a supplemental vitamin or hormone or a medicine, all we can do with today's technology is to inject it into our bloodstream or swallow it, and hope that the body's molecular machinery will transport and use the substances properly. During surgery, even the most precise microsurgery, the surgeon's scalpel slices through thousands of cells moving trillions of molecules out of their proper positions. At the cellular level, every surgical procedure is an unbelievably crude operation. The surgeon relies heavily on the molecular machinery of the body to put things back in position after the surgery is over. If we could develop machines the size of viruses to continuously and efficiently maintain the molecules of our bodies, augmenting the natural molecular machinery in our bodies, we would never get sick. Such maintenance would have to include getting rid of the molecules that aren't supposed to be there.

53. CRYONICS -- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) Upto-date answers to basic cryonics questions. A good starting point. By Ben Best. http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/CryoFAQ.html

Cryonics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by Ben Best For an overview of the essential questions of cryonics in essay form, see my piece Cryonics: The Issues CONTENTS I. Definitions I-A. What is cryonics I-B. What is ... X-C. How can I get more information about the cryonics organizations ? I. Definitions I-A. What is cryonics Cryonics is the practice of cryopreserving a legally dead person or animal for possible revival when future science can cure all disease, can rejuvenate to a condition of perpetual youth and can reverse all damage due to the cryopreservation process. The word cryonics is a neologism it was made-up by Karl Werner (a member of the Cryonics Society of New York) in the late 1960s. (return to contents head) (return to topic head) I-B. What is cryopreservation Cryopreservation (return to contents head) (return to topic head) I-C. What is cryogenics Cryogenics is low-temperature (below -100°C) physics. The use of the word "cryogenics" when meaning "cryonics" is typically indicative of a person who has not seriously investigated cryonics. (return to contents head) (return to topic head) I-D. What is a

54. Expage.com/page/cryonics CryoCare Foundation cryonics ServicesCryoCare Foundation offers cryonics services, experimental procedures whereby patients who no longer can be kept alive with today s medical abilities are http://expage.com/page/cryonics

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56. Forever For All Forever For All. Moral Philosophy, cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality. by Michael R. Perry. Email the Author. URL http//www.alcor.org. http://www.upublish.com/books/perry.htm

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57. The Society For The Recovery Of Persons Apparently Dead A fascinating medical essay about the history of attempts to revive people who appear dead and the relationship of these ideas to cryonics. By Steven B. Harris, M.D. http://www.skeptic.com/01.2.harris-dead.html

From Skeptic vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 1992, pp. 24-31. For more information, visit www.skeptic.com THE SOCIETY FOR THE RECOVERY OF PERSONS APPARENTLY DEAD By Steven B. Harris, Ph.D. Contents: Introduction Resuscitation Dark Clouds Some General Observations On History ... Cryonics The history of technological innovation is the history of the tortuous paths which advances often take to acceptance. It might seem at first, from the many well-known instances of simultaneous discoveries, that it is the nature of important ideas to spring up newly everywhere, independently, as soon as the world is ripe for them. But this is only the view at first glance. In actuality, the "synchronicity" of discovery usually turns out to be a late phenomenon, one that follows a prodrome in which the "new" idea in question has long been around in some form or another, but steadfastly has been ignored. How long can an important idea be ignored? The model steam engine was demonstrated by Hero of Alexandria in the first century A.D., sixteen centuries before people started thinking along these lines again. Gregor Mendel published the basic principles of genetics in 1866, and was ignored until 1900. Oswald Avery published strong evidence that DNA was the principle of heredity in 1944, but no one really believed it until the time of Watson and Crick almost a decade later. The time varies, depending on circumstance. Delayed acceptance of discovery happens in all areas of science, of course, but it always happens in the field of medicine with great poignancy, since there the human costs of dropping the technological ball are usually great. We may consider, for instance, the numbers of lives which might have been saved if not for the following delays:

58. The Future Of Death: Cryonics And The Telos Of Liberal Individualism, By James J The Future of Death cryonics and the Telos of Liberal Individualism. The Future of Death cryonics and the Telos of Liberal Individualism. Abstract. http://www.jetpress.org/volume6/death.htm

JOURNAL OF EVOLUTION AND TECHNOLOGY , Volume 6, July 2001 The Future of Death: Cryonics and the Telos of Liberal Individualism James J. Hughes, Ph.D. Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut For more information please contact: James Hughes, Trinity College, 71 Vernon St., Hartford CT, 06106, 860-297-2376, jhughes@changesurfer.com www.changesurfer.com The Future of Death: Cryonics and the Telos of Liberal Individualism Abstract This paper addresses four questions: First, what is trajectory of Western liberal ethics and politics in defining life, rights and citizenship? Second, how will neuro-remediation and other technologies change the definition of death for the brain injured and the cryonically suspended? Third, will people always have to be dead to be cryonically suspended? Fourth, how will changing technologies and definitions of identity affect the status of people revived from brain injury and cryonic suspension? I propose that Western liberal thought is working towards a natural end, a “telos.” In response to a variety of biotechnologies, law and public opinion in liberal democracies will be forced to make explicit that the rights of a living thing are determined by its level of consciousness. I discuss the way that technology will force three clarifications about the value of consciousness, at the beginning, the end and boundaries of human life.

59. The Society For Venturism A nonprofit organization with the purpose of promoting the worldwide conquest of death and the continuation and enhancement of life through technological means, including cryonic suspension. Does not offer cryonics services. In Scottsdale, AZ. http://www.venturist.org

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60. Is Cryonics Feasible? Is cryonics Feasible? Stephen Barrett, MD. cryonics is defined by maintenance in liquid nitrogen. The cryonics Institute states http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/QA/cryonics.html

Index of Questions QuackWatch Home Page Is Cryonics Feasible? Stephen Barrett, M.D. Cryonics is defined by its proponents as "the freezing of humans as shortly as possible after death with the hope of eventual return to life."Proponents claim that it is possible to preserve "with reasonable fidelity" the basic biologic components of the brain and that future technology will be able to repair brain damage caused by "imperfect preservation, premortal disease, and postmortem changes." [1] The current cost ranges from about $28,000 for preservation of just the brain within the head to more than $120,000 for whole-body freezing and perpetual maintenance in liquid nitrogen. The Cryonics Institute states: As soon as possible after legal death, a member patient is prepared and cooled to a temperature where physical decay essentially stops, and is then maintained indefinitely in cryostasis. When and if future medical technology allows, our member patients will be healed and revived, and awaken to extended life in youthful good health. Bacterial decay may stop, but that is not enough to make recovery possible. As noted by Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine:

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