21. Cryonics UK - A Ticket To The Future Site for information and discussion of cryonics in the United Kingdom. Provides standby assistance to its members who have signed up with a cryonics service provider. http://www.cryonics-uk.com/

22. Cryonics - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com From Abracadabra to Zombies View All. a; b; c; d; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; x; y; z; cryonics. cryonics claims it can store a dead human body at low temperatures in such a way that it http://www.skepdic.com/cryonics.html

Robert T. Carroll Home Newsletter Feedback ... Site Map Topical Indexes Alternative Medicine Cryptozoology Junk Science New Age ... Who Am I? Other Writings Skeptimedia Mass Media Funk Mass Media Bunk What's the Harm? ... In Memoriam Other Resources Recommended Books For Young Thinkers For Teachers A Skeptic's Halloween ... Self-help books. Do they really help? Find out for yourself! Crazy Therapies The helpers who need help. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All a b c ... z cryonics Cryonics claims it can store a dead human body at low temperatures in such a way that it will be possible to revitalize that body and restore life at some unspecified future date. One hook the cryonics folks use is to give hope that a cure for a disease one dies of today will be found tomorrow, allowing that cure to be applied to the thawed body before or while bringing the dead person back to life. Cryonics might be called resurrection by technology and believers in it might be classified as suffering from the Moses syndrome . The simple fact is once you are dead, you are dead forever. This fact may seem horrifying, but it is not nearly as horrifying as the thought of living forever.

23. Cryonics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediacryonicscryonicsprinciple from the defibrillator or advanced cardiac life support.Premises of cryonicsThe central premise of cryonics is that http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6277111/Cryonics

24. Cryonics -- TRANS TIME, Inc. Home Page -- Cryonic Suspension Service Provider A cryonics service provider in San Leandro, California. 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

25. Is Cryonics Feasible? 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 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

26. CryoNet - Cryonics Mailing List A free discussion mailing list on cryonicsrelated issues. May also be read on-line; posts accepted from subscribers only. Searchable archives are available from the list's http://cryonet.org/

27. NZCS Organisation dedicated to assisting New Zealanders who wish to use cryonic cryopreservation as an option upon legal death. http://www.nzcryonicssociety.org.nz/

New Zealand Cryonics Society Home About Us Links Books ... Contact Us Special Announcement! The NZCS has made contact with a US manufacturer that sells portable refrigeration units designed to hold a human body. Announcing the Whitmer Porta-Morgue please click here for more informtion The Case for Cryonics: The central idea of cryonics is simple: if sufficient biological structure in dying patients can be preserved at low temperature today, then revival and rejuvenation by future medical technology is (in principle) possible. This proposition is based on diverse but solid evidence from the fields of neurobiology, low-temperature biology, and theoretical engineering. We believe there is sufficient credible evidence to support the following assertions Persistence of long term memory and personality does not require continuous brain function. Clinical experience demonstrates that memory and personality may be retained in persons who have had prolonged breaks in brain electrical activity. Ultra-Low Temperatures can preserve fine brain structure indefinitely if the brain is carefully preserved in the first place.

28. CryoCare Autoforward Page CryoCare Foundation offers cryonics services. Includes an explanation of cryonics, with a library of articles. http://www.cryocare.org/

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29. Alcor: About Cryonics What is cryonics? cryonics is the speculative practice of using cold to preserve the life of a person who can no longer be supported by ordinary medicine. http://www.alcor.org/AboutCryonics/index.html

Home Free Information Membership Info Donate ... Click for Printable Version What is Cryonics? Cryonics is the speculative practice of using cold to preserve the life of a person who can no longer be supported by ordinary medicine. The goal is to carry the person forward through time, for however many decades or centuries might be necessary, until the preservation process can be reversed, and the person restored to full health. While cryonics sounds like science fiction, there is a basis for it in real science. The complete scientific story of cryonics is seldom told in media reports, leaving cryonics widely misunderstood. Cryonics is justified by three facts that are not well known: 1) Life can be stopped and restarted if its basic structure is preserved. Human embryos are routinely preserved for years at temperatures that completely stop the chemistry of life. Adult humans have survived cooling to temperatures that stop the heart, brain, and all other organs from functioning for up to an hour. These and many other lessons of biology teach us that life is a particular structure of matter. Life can be stopped and restarted if cell structure and chemistry are preserved sufficiently well.

30. Cryonics A slim, but interesting perspective piece on cryonics by Mark Prado, an American living in Thailand. http://www.permanent.com/mark/cryonics.html

31. Cryonics UK - A Ticket To The Future cryonics UK, a nonprofit Standby Assistance organisation for cryonicists signed up with CI or Alcor http://cryonics-uk.com/

32.  Cryonics Society Of America Home cryonics through the cryonics Society of America, the world's oldest incorporated cryonics society since 1969. Full service cryonic suspensions. Supporting Information and http://cryonics.ws/

Cryonics Society of America       Since 1969                     aka The American Cryonics Society, Inc. 2008 The American Cryonics Society 20370 Town Center Lane #100, Cupertino, CA 95014 P.O. Box 1509, Cupertino, CA 95015 cryonics@americancryonics.org Home Improved Response for People Living in Florida and California Who Wish Cryonic Suspension When we receive an emergency response call concerning American Cryonics Society members, we can then dispatch a standby and emergency response team. This team consists of trained personnel and equipment so that a suspension can be initiated immediately after the doctor pronounces the patient as legally dead. How soon a team can respond depends upon the home base of the team. The American Cryonics Society now has contract providers based in Southern California and in South Florida. The American Cryonics Society has long had a base in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The fact of having teams based on both east and west coasts also mean that we can cover the entire country better. For further information for people living in California or Florida, go to our discussion under Florida and California cryonics. Let’s talk :) We’ve been talking to folks about cryonics for almost 40 years! We know that the prospect of life extension through cryonics can be strange and a bit intimidating. That is why we’ve laid out several paths to knowledge. You can phone us, write us, e-mail, or read about cryonics and the American Cryonics Society through books or online. Any information is good information. On the other hand, a lot of online information is misleading. It is best to take a few minutes to call and find out from a direct source.

33. Cryonics - RationalWiki cryonics is the practice of freezing clinically dead people in liquid nitrogen with the hope of future reanimation. Presentlynonexistent sufficiently advanced nanotechnology http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cryonics

Cryonics From RationalWiki Jump to: navigation search Promotional photo of Alcor technicians preparing cadavers. Cryonics is the practice of freezing clinically dead people in liquid nitrogen with the hope of future reanimation. Presently-nonexistent sufficiently advanced nanotechnology or mind uploading are the favored methods envisioned for revival. Scientists will admit that some sort of cryogenic preservation and revival does not provably violate known physics. But they stress that, in practical terms, freezing and reviving dead humans is so far off as to hardly be worth taking seriously; present cryonics practices are speculation at best, and quackery and pseudoscience at worst. Nevertheless, cryonicists will accept considerable amounts of money right now for procedures based only on vague science-fiction-level speculations, with no scientific evidence whatsoever that any of their present actions will help achieve their declared aims. They sincerely consider this an obviously sensible idea that one would have to be stupid not to sign up for. Cryonics should not be confused with cryobiology (the study of living things and tissues at low temperatures)

34. Cryonics Information Online A new discussion forum on cryonics, attempting to focus on science issues. Also some links to basic information. http://cryonics.info

Cryonics.Info Definitive Information on Cryonics Home About Books and Bibliography Cryonics Info. Stem-Cell Research ... Survey Results Members Join Now Login The University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank conducts research on cryo-preserved brains. Deborah Mash, Professor of Neurology, and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, and Director of Research for the Brain Endowment Bank. 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)

35. Cryonics Institute - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The cryonics Institute (CI) is a memberowned-and-operated not-for-profit corporation which provides cryonics services. CI is located in Clinton Township, Michigan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics_Institute

Cryonics Institute From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources (February 2010) Cryonics Institute Founders Robert Ettinger Founded Location Clinton Township Michigan 42°33′17″N 82°51′58″W ... 42.55472°N 82.86611°W Key people Andy Zawacki, Ben Best Area served Global Focus Cryopreservation of humans and pets in the hope of future reanimation. Method Cryonics vitrification perfusion and cryogenic storage Revenue Membership fees and donations; Master Cemetery Trust Volunteers Employees Members Website www.cryonics.org The Cryonics Institute (CI) is a member-owned-and-operated not-for-profit corporation which provides cryonics services. CI is located in Clinton Township Michigan . As of 1 October 2010, CI had cryonically prepared remains of 100 humans pets as well as 169 human tissue DNA samples and 42 pet tissue/ DNA samples in liquid nitrogen storage.

36. Cryonics - Crystalinks cryonics. cryonics is the practice of preserving organisms by storing them at cryogenic temperatures where metabolism and decay are almost completely stopped. http://www.crystalinks.com/cryonics.html

Cryonics Cryonics is the practice of preserving organisms by storing them at cryogenic temperatures where metabolism and decay are almost completely stopped. Viruses, bacteria, sperm/eggs, embryos at early stages of development, insects, and even small animals (small frogs, some fish) can be cryogenically frozen, preserved for an indefinite time (as long as low temperature is maintained) and then thawed and returned to a living state. Large animals or organs (a few centimeters and larger) can not be safely frozen because removing heat via thick tissue by natural thermoconductivity becomes so slow that ice microcrystals grow big enough to damage cell membranes. An organism held in such a state (either frozen or vitrified) is said to be cryopreserved. Barring social disruptions, cryonicists believe that a perfectly vitrified person can be expected to remain physically viable for at least 30,000 years, after which time cosmic ray damage is 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. To its detractors, the justification for cryonics is unclear, given the primitive state of preservation technology. Advocates counter that even a slim chance of revival is better than no chance. In the future, they speculate, not only will conventional health services be improved, but they will also quite likely have expanded even to the conquering of old age itself (see links at the bottom). Therefore, if one could preserve one's body (or at least the contents of one's mind) for, say, another hundred years, one might well be resuscitated and live indefinitely long. But critics of the field contend that, while an interesting technical idea, cryonics is currently little more than a pipedream, 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 any hope of success.

37. 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.

38. Nanotechnology And Cryonics - Life Extension Manual - Futurescience.com The term nanotechnology is often used today to refer to manufacturing products with nanoscale features. This nanoscale manufacturing is something that is often done today, but 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.

39. 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. The site is in both English and Danish. 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.

40. Cryonics cryonics There's a certain irrefutable logic to cryonics which goes something like this What have you got to lose? What indeed? If you've got the cash to spare, then why not http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/cryonics/

rotten Library Medicine Cryonics There's a certain irrefutable logic to cryonics which goes something like this: What have you got to lose? What indeed? If you've got the cash to spare, then why not have your corpse frozen until some time in the unspecified future, when people will be able to cure whatever caused your death. While a "slim" chance maybe be better than "no" chance, the odds that you will successfully be reanimated at some point in the future are pretty forbidding, even relative to things like winning the lottery or making an unsatisfactory lover change for the better. Since the time of ancient Egypt, mankind has been trying to preserve corpses in the hope of future reanimation. In case you hadn't noticed, this effort has been 100% unsuccessful to date. Cryonics per se (also known as cryogenics), the art of freezing a body to prevent decomposition, is a younger science but it's still been around long enough to demonstrate why it's a bad bet. Part of the problem with cryonics is that, much like time travel, there's really no big reason why it shouldn't work, it's just that we have no idea how it actually could work. Microbes, fish and a few other low-order cold-blooded life forms can in fact be frozen alive and thawed back to life. Depending on the specific critter, you can re-animate months, years or millennia later.

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