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Resuscitation and Reintegration of Cryonics Patients Symposium

Aschwin de Wolf — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:19:57 PDT

On Sunday May 12, 2013, the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics will organize a symposium about the resuscitation and reintegration of cryonics patients in Portland, Oregon. To our knowledge, this is the first public meeting exclusively concerned with the repair, resuscitation, and reintegration of cryonics patients. The symposium is being held...

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Protecting cryonics patients

Aschwin de Wolf — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:38:13 PDT

Anyone who has ever reflected on the fragility of human life and the seemingly inevitable rise and fall of complex societies cannot fail to be concerned about the fate of patients in cryopreservation. Cryonics organizations have learned from the early days and abandoned the practice of accepting patients without complete prepayment – a practice...

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Iatrogenesis and Cryonics

Aschwin de Wolf — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:43:14 PDT

Wikipedia tells us that iatrogenesis is “an inadvertent adverse effect or complication resulting from medical treatment or advice…” The key word in this definition is “inadvertent.” For example, a doctor who exposes a patient to a bacterial infection by accidentally donning non-surgical gloves is an example of iatrogenesis. A doctor who...

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Broward County South Florida Cryonics Meeting

Ben Best — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:16:04 PST

I moved to Florida a number of months ago, but I am only now starting a cryonics group in the Broward County, Florida area. As a first event I have booked a table at the Peking Tokyo Buffet restaurant on 1219 South Federal Hwy, Deerfield Beach, Florida for dinner in the early evening (7 P.M. [...]

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In praise of cold

Aschwin de Wolf — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:39:49 PST

Some observers believe that cryonics advocates are reluctant to subject their theories to experimental scrutiny because this could damage their (uncritical) belief in future resuscitation. Similarly, one might think that cryonicists would react with a mix of hostility and dismissal to alternative strategies for personal survival. Nothing could be...

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A pathography of aging

Aschwin de Wolf — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:25:28 PST

In her book Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins proposes that the modern pathography is replacing the accounts of religious conversion that were popular in earlier eras. What is a pathography? One definition that I found is “the study of the life of an individual or the history of a community with regard [...]

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Preserving and inferring

Aschwin de Wolf — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:31:55 PDT

A common complaint against cryonics is that existing cryopreservation technologies may not be good enough to preserve the ultrastructure of the human brain. Advocates of cryonics often object that such views do not reflect actual inspection of the evidence of cryopreserved brains but instead reflect misconceptions about “freezing” and ice...

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ApoE4, diet, and gender

Aschwin de Wolf — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:49:00 PDT

As we learn more about the human genome, there will be an increasing recognition that general diet recommendations are going to give way to diet recommendations that more closely track the genotype of individuals. For those interested in healthy life extension an important question concerns the relationship between ApoE status and diet. In Why We...

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First symposium on cryonics and dementia

Aschwin de Wolf — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:30:33 PDT

The recent symposium on cryonics and brain-threatening disorders was a major success. On Saturday, July 7, 2012, around 30 people attended the first ever symposium on dementia and cryonics in Portland, Oregon. The symposium started with a brief introduction by Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics President Aschwin de Wolf, who emphasized why...

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Cryonics and dementia

Aschwin de Wolf — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:57:34 PDT

In a few days the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics and Cryonics NW will host a symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders. We care deeply about this issue and some of us have observed fellow cryonicists succumb to (advanced) dementia prior to their cryopreservation – or worse, the disease compromised their understanding of...

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