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Revisiting Donaldson v Van de Kamp: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis

Aschwin de Wolf — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:04:42 PDT

An additional speaker has been added to the Symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders line-up. Keegan Macintosh – Revisiting Donaldson v Van de Kamp: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis Suffering from a malignant brain tumour, Thomas Donaldson petitioned the California Superior Court in 1990 for a declaration that he had a...

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Legal Protection of Cryonics Patients, Part 2

Keegan Macintosh — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:19:26 PDT

This article series seeks to compare the legal protection of cryonics patients under their present legal status to the legal protection which would be afforded them if they were recognized as persons under the law, thinking ahead to such future time as it becomes reasonably possible to put legal and political pressure towards enhanced legal [...]

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Alcor founder Fred Chamberlain cryopreserved

Aschwin de Wolf — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:33:32 PDT

One of Alcor’s founders, Fred Chamberlain III, has been cryopreserved at Alcor. His wife, and co-founder of Alcor, Linda Chamberlain, has released a document to announce his cryopreservation and honor him: “One of our great intellectual and emotional bonds was our interest in technological means of extending life. Fred and I...

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Symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders

Aschwin de Wolf — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:02:14 PST

On Saturday July 7, 2012, the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics and Cryonics Northwest will organize a symposium on cryonics and brain-threatening disorders in Portland, Oregon. The symposium will start at 09:00 am at the offices of Kaos Softwear. Entrance to the event is free. This symposium is the first event of its kind in [...]

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Alzheimer’s disease and cryonics

Aschwin de Wolf — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:49:10 PST

Conventional wisdom in life extension circles is that making cryonics arrangements allows one to benefit from rejuvenation technologies that are not available during one’s existing lifespan. Aside from the risk of high-impact accidents or getting lost at sea, there is one challenge that some cryonicists will face when they grow older; the...

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Legal Protection of Cryonics Patients, Part 1

Keegan Macintosh — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:25:55 PST

In a previous article, Aschwin de Wolf argues that it might be easier to persuade others that cryonics patients are still alive according to existing criteria of death, than to argue for the adoption of a more progressive definition, such as information-theoretic death. Presumably though, if we are to go to the trouble at all, [...]

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Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics update

Aschwin de Wolf — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:13:58 PST

The Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics website and the Depressed Metabolism blog have now been completely integrated. In 2007 the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics was established as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization to educate the general public about cryonics and launch projects to improve the science and practice of...

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Annotated bibliography of cryoprotectant toxicity

Aschwin de Wolf — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:55:02 PST

Introduction Cryoprotectant toxicity should be distinguished from other mechanisms of cryopreservation injury such as chilling injury (injury produced by too low temperatures as such) and cold shock (injury produced by rapid cooling). Cryoprotectant toxicity itself can again be divided into general cryoprotectant toxicity and specific...

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The 2011 Calorie Restriction Society Conference

Ben Best — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:36:07 PST

On October 27-29 I attended CR VII, the 2011 Calorie Restriction Society Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Members of the Calorie Restriction Society restrict their calories while maintaining adequate nutrition as a means of extending their lifespan (or improving their healthspan), as has been proven to work in lower animals. Although I was...

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Fifth SENS Conference

Ben Best — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:34:35 PDT

August 31 to September 4, 2011 I attended fifth biannual SENS Conference (SENS5, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. People who attend SENS conferences are the demographic that is the most receptive to cryonics of any identifiable group I have yet found. They are mostly scientists...

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