21. What Is Cryonics? Brief and Straightforward Guide What is cryonics? http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cryonics.htm

What is Cryonics? ad_unit_target='mainAdUnit'; X Close this window Cryonics is the practice of preserving animals or humans under very low temperatures to halt the decay process. In futurist circles, cryonics is seen as a possible way to cheat death by preserving oneself until medical science can revive the patient without damage. Animals have already been frozen for hours and revived with today's science, although more complex animals such as felines tend to undergo some brain damage. Freezing is not the only technique employed by cryonicists - in modern cryonics, vitrification is also used. In vitrification, a cryoprotectant such as glycerol is injected into the patient in high concentrations resulting in rapid cooling without ice formation. Glycerol is the same substance used by some species of frog to survive almost completely embedded in ice for days or weeks. Vitrification is distinct from freezing because the patient is cooled so quickly that the biological tissue has no time to warp into a crystalline pattern; the original pattern is preserved with high integrity, hardened like glass Critics of cryonics have contended that medical science will never advance to the point of being able to revive a vitrified body, even after thousands or millions of years. Still others contend that no one in the future will care enough to revive human bodies preserved during this era, even if the technology were available and economical. Most cryonics advocates cite molecular nanotechnology as the likely future means of smooth and complete revival for cryopreserved patients.

22. CryoCare Autoforward Page CryoCare Foundation offers cryonics services, experimental procedures whereby patients who no longer can be kept alive with today s medical abilities are http://www.cryocare.org/

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23. Cryonics -- TRANS TIME, Inc. Home Page -- Cryonic Suspension Service Provider TRANS TIME is a pioneering service provider in the exciting field of cryonics, based in San Leandro, California. cryonics is the science of placing humans http://www.transtime.com/

Cryonics is the science of placing humans and animals into a low-temperature, biologically unchanging state, immediately after clinical death, with the expectation that advances in medical technology may eventually enable full restoration to life and health. TRANS TIME is a pioneering cryonics service provider, based in San Leandro, California. If you are looking for information on TRANS TIME , cryonics, or websites covering related topics, you've come to the right place! In these pages you can find (or find your way to) everything you ever wanted to know about the most fascinating long-term scientific research project man has ever undertaken. For an introduction to our company and information on how to sign up for cryonic suspension services, visit our Introduction to TRANS TIME, INC. For a complete overview of the scientific field of cryonics, be sure to read our Cryonics Intro If you have questions or comments, you can fill out the

24. Cryonics Chat Discussions of cryonics, cryogenics, cryobiology, life extension, transhumanism, death, and related issues. http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/

The Cold Filter The Cold Filter - where we distill, extract, and retrieve an intoxicating blend from the data stream of other cryonics-related outlets, preserving the resulting brew for further examination and full-flavored information consumption. Topics will include, but not be limited to: cryonics, cryobiology, life extension, bioethics, transformative humanism, and other issues. Please create an account with a handle or user name, and be certain you're logged in . New member posts, and posts from old inactive members, may be subject to moderator approval before appearing. Contact Moderator Cryo Blog Roll Alcor United More Life ... Cryonics Society of Canada Not logged in Login Create Account Search Post Something ... View Entire Thread - david pizer on Jan 13, 2008, 1:01 AM Boarding and Funding - Finance Department on Jan 14, 2008, 2:40 PM sorry - david pizer on Jan 14, 2008, 6:37 PM Not to change the subject, but - TWrelated on Jan 14, 2008, 7:02 PM The Moral Imperative to Stay in Business - Finance Department on Jan 14, 2008, 10:42 PM I wasn't there - TWrelated on Jan 14, 2008, 11:10 PM

25. Cryonics Over Dead Geeks' Bodies A large percentage of technologically adept humans are opting to have their bodies frozen after they die, according to research in a new book. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45188,00.html

@import "/css/toolbox_article_bottom.css"; @import "/css/article.css"; @import "/css/google_ad.css"; @import "/css/wiredcomment.css"; Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Change Address ... WIRED Science Top Stories Magazine Wired Blogs All Wired Culture Lifestyle Cryonics Over Dead Geeks' Bodies Michelle Delio Reader's advisory: Wired News has been unable to confirm some sources Many geeks will survive death and go on to a glorious future assuming that medical science figures out a way to defrost and reanimate them. According to a new book, The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead , techies make up a large percentage of those who have signed up for cryonic suspension, an experimental procedure used to preserve legally dead bodies in the hopes that future medical breakthroughs will allow them to be brought back to life. Those who have opted for cryonic suspension will be packed in ice as soon as they die. Soon after, their body fluids will be replaced with a glycerin-based solution that acts as a kind of anti-freeze. Their flesh will be cooled with liquid nitrogen to minus-320 degrees Fahrenheit, and their bodies will then be

26. Is Cryonics Feasible? 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. http://www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/QA/cryonics.html

Home Search Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions Send This Page to a Friend 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] In 2005 the cost for whole-body freezing and permanent maintenance ranged from about $28,000 to $150,000. “Brain only” suspension, which is less expensive, is also available. 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

27. The Frozen Home Of Cryonics Welcome to the cryonics Homepage! cryonics is a swedish pc demo group that currently consists of ten members. We have been contributing to the scene for http://hem.passagen.se/cryonics/

28. A Cold Calculus Leads Cryonauts To Put Assets On Ice - WSJ.com Like some 1000 other members of the cryonics movement, Mr. Pizer has . In Arizona, Mr. Pizer says he hopes his wife will join him in cryonic storage. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113780314900652582-3NZCCoZBW7UHDmouEOrkzk

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29. Nanotechnology And Cryonics Until the mid1980 s, the probability of cryonics being successful had to be considered as very slim. One problem was that no one knew what sort of http://www.futurescience.com/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.

30. Cryonics And Cryogenics cryonics and Cryogenics freezing - science of that which is cold - bringing frozen people back to life in the distant future. http://www.zyra.org.uk/cryo.htm

Zyra's front page SCIENCE Contact site index Cryonics Suspended Animation Cryonics is freezing people so they may be brought back to life in the future. The future is hoped to be an amazing utopian futuristic existence where the sorts of things people died of these days (2004) can easily be cured. And, of course, the technology is assumed to be good enough to bring back to life people who have been frozen solid in liquid nitrogen for centuries! The idea is in principle not new, and has some similarities in principle to the Ancient Egyptian idea of storing a body by mummification in the hopes that the person will go on to an afterlife. Sceptics say it's all a bit silly on the basis that it's impossible to restore someone who is dead. It had better be mentioned here that although CRYONICS is optimistic immortalism, CRYOGENICS is a serious science to do with anything very cold, and there are some scientists in the serious business of supercool superconducting magnets who, if you ask them about deep-frozen dead people will look at you in the same sort of way as Patrick Moore would if you asked him to tell you your fortune by "the stars"! My personal opinion (this review is by Zyra , by the way), is that cryonics IS possible, and that if you freeze a dead person properly and keep the body long enough then you will be able to have them brought back to life, although it may be in the DISTANT future! The basis for this belief is:

31. Cryonics Survey A Survey of Familiarity With And Attitudes Toward cryonics. http://www.jetpress.org/volume3/badger.htm

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies contents call for papers editorial board ... JET AN EXPLORATORY SURVEY EXAMINING THE FAMILIARITY WITH AND ATTITUDES TOWARD CRYONIC PRESERVATION W. Scott Badger, Ph.D. Journal of Evolution and Technology. December 1998. Vol. 3 - PDF version 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.

32. Elixir News | Cryonics Home cryonics is the process in which those who have died are preserved by keeping them at a very low temperature until a means is developed to reverse the http://www.elixirnews.com/sectionHome.php?catID=48

33. Small Times - Cryonics Conference Brings Out Nanotech's Extreme Optimists Small Times cryonics conference brings out nanotech s extreme optimists - At a recent Conference on Extreme Life Extension, two well-known scientists http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=5148

34. Cryonics Introduction: Introduction cryonics 101 Definitions Directory. http://cryonics.home.att.net/

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35. Even For The Last .400 Hitter, Cryonics Is The Longest Shot - New York Times This has raised public awareness about cryonics and about Alcor, Dr. Lemler said. We re under scrutiny like never before, and we welcome it. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5DE1530F933A25754C0A9649C8B6

36. Cryonics FAQ 1: Index It should be read by anyone interested in posting to sci.cryonics and by anyone who finds the prospect of certain death irritating. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cryonics-faq/part1/

Cryonics FAQ 1: Index There are reader questions on this topic! Help others by sharing your knowledge From: tsf+@cs.cmu.edu (Timothy Freeman) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics tim@infoscreen.com ). The words "I" and "me" in these answers refer to opinions of Tim Freeman, which may or may not be shared by others. There is much information available as cryomsg's. You can fetch cryomsg "n" by sending mail to kqb@cryonet.org http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/html/overview.html Rate this FAQ N/A Worst Weak OK Good Great Related questions and answers Usenet FAQs Search Web FAQs ... RFC Index Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: tsf+@cs.cmu.edu (Timothy Freeman) Last Update May 13 2007 @ 00:22 AM

37. Danish Cryonics Support Group The DCSG consists primarily of Danish members of the cryonics Institute (CI) and those interested in becoming members of a suspension organization. http://cryo.secureid.org/

Danish Cryonics Support Group Freeze, wait, reanimate! Home About Members Join Now Login [Dansk] 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. (Badger, 1998) This web site is maintained by the Danish Cryonics Support Group (DCSG). It consists primarily of Danish members of the Cryonics Institute (CI) and those interested in becoming members of a suspension organization. People wishing to be kept up to date about activities should sign up for site membership. This is not the same as membership in the Danish Cryonics Support Group. Site membership permits reading and responding in the discussion forum. No messages are sent from this site except upon request, and they can be turned off at any time (see Policies below). The membership list is not public. As part of its public information program, lectures are available on a variety of topics, including technologies related to life-extension (genetic engineering, anti-ageing drugs, nanotechnology, cryonic suspension, health informatics), social implications of these new technologies, and philosophical foundations of the movement.

38. Definition: Cryonics From Online Medical Dictionary cryonics. Any of several medical techniques that use cold for therapeutic purposes, such as using ice to deaden pain. (09 Oct 1997) http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?cryonics

39. Cryonics Society Outreach As I m sure you re all aware, I consider cryonics placing humans and animals into a low-temperature, biologically unchanging state immediately after http://www.fightaging.org/archives/000420.php

"We are on the verge of a revolution in medicine: understanding, treating, and ultimately preventing the causes of degenerative aging. But medical revolutions only happen if we all stand up in support of funding and research. We did it for cancer. We're doing it for Alzheimer's. We can do it for aging - and create an era of longer, healthier lives!" Required Reading Activism and Advocacy Calorie Restriction The Community, Visualized Cryonics ... High Quality Supplements, Vitamins On the Causes of Aging Accumulating AGEs Aging Immune System Junk in the Lysosome Mitochondrial Free Radicals ... Other Causes of Aging Objections Answered Boredom Inequality and Economics Overpopulation Stagnation ... What About Retirement? Recent Entries Bad Reasons to Not Cure Aging Online Chat With Aubrey de Grey, Sunday November 11th Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Healthy Ageing and Longevity Aging and Oxidative Stress ... The Prospects for Enhancing Autophagy to Combat Age-Related Degeneration Weblogs of Interest Accelerating Future Alcor News April's CR Diary Andart ... grailsearch.org

40. Scientists' Open Letter On Cryonics cryonics is a legitimate sciencebased endeavor that seeks to preserve human beings, especially the human brain, by the best technology available. http://www.imminst.org/cryonics_letter/

Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics To whom it may concern, Cryonics is a legitimate science-based endeavor that seeks to preserve human beings, especially the human brain, by the best technology available. Future technologies for resuscitation can be envisioned that involve molecular repair by nanomedicine, highly advanced computation, detailed control of cell growth, and tissue regeneration. With a view toward these developments, there is a credible possibility that cryonics performed under the best conditions achievable today can preserve sufficient neurological information to permit eventual restoration of a person to full health. The rights of people who choose cryonics are important, and should be respected. Sincerely (61 Signatories) Signatories encompass all disciplines relevant to cryonics, including Biology, Cryobiology, Neuroscience, Physical Science, Nanotechnology and Computing, Ethics and Theology. [Signature date in brackets] Gregory Benford, Ph.D.

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