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Cryogenics And The Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Posted on March 26, 2005 By jim No Comments on Cryogenics And The Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Cryonics – Suspension by Freezing

CRYONICS AND THE ALCOR LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION

CRYONIC SUSPENSION is an experimental procedure whereby

patients who can no longer be kept alive with today’s medical

abilities are preserved at low temperatures for treatment in the

future.

Although this procedure is not yet reversible, it is based on

the expectation that medical technology of the future will be able

to cure today’s diseases, reverse the effects of aging, and repair

any additional injury caused by the freezing process.

That in future time, superior technology could then rejuvenate

suspended patients to enjoy health and youth indefinitely.

The field which deals with this procedure is called CRYONICS.

(This should not be confused with “cryogenics,” which is the branch

of physics which studies very low temperatures.)

Cryonics is not a cult or a religion of any kind. The people

involved in cryonics hold widely varying views on religion,

politics, and social issues. Their occupations include scientists,

physicians, computer programmers, business owners, teachers,

librarians, and secretaries. However, they all agree that being

alive is a wonderful thing and that this technology may help them

stay that way.

Cryonics might better be seen as a experimental medical

technology. This label may seem strange at first, since many

people are under the mistaken impression that cryonics patients are

dead.

Cryonics is not a new way of storing dead bodies. It is a new

way of saving lives. Cryonicists refer to these frozen people as

PATIENTS , because we firmly believe that they are, in some manner,

still alive.

People really are being frozen; it is no longer science

fiction. Approximately 50 persons have been frozen since the first

cryonic suspension in 1967. About 300 other people have made the

financial and legal arrangements to be suspended in case they should

become terminally ill or injured.

However, any stories you may read about frozen people being

revived are definitely science fiction. No human has ever been

thawed out and revived, and it will be a long time before this

happens. Medical technology has not yet advanced to the point

where cryonic suspension is reversible; today’s deadly illnesses and

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injuries are not yet curable; and even if these things had been

accomplished, there is no point in reviving anyone until the aging

process is fully under control. No one wants to be reawakened as an

aged, infirm person.

Cryonics is not yet accepted as a legitimate life-saving

procedure by today’s medical authorities. With our current

technology we cannot prove that a frozen human can be repaired and

revived (although a great deal of research suggests that this will

be possible in the future).

Unfortunately, this situation creates numerous medical, legal,

and even political difficulties.

For instance, if a patient were to be suspended while he was

legally alive, someone might claim that the suspension process

itself had killed that patient, creating the possibility of criminal

or civil charges against the suspension team.

Therefore, current cryonics practice is to suspend dying

patients as soon as possible after cardiac arrest (stopping of the

heart) and declaration of “legal death.”

This course of action can be seen as reasonable once one

realizes that “legal death” is not the same as “biological death.”

A physician declares legal death when a patient’s condition

cannot be repaired with current medical knowledge and techniques.

However, the process of deterioration which we call “dying” is

not a sudden happening. It is much more like slipping into an ever

deepening coma.

Even several hours after declaration of death, most of the

cells in the body (including those in the brain) are still

individually alive and ready to regain function.

As late as the 1940’s, people who stopped breathing because of

heart attacks or drowning were routinely declared dead.

Today thousands of people have survived heart attacks and other

conditions which would have been fatal 40 years ago. Children have

survived over an hour of “drowning” in cold water.

Were those heart attack and drowning victims really dead forty

years ago, but nature has changed the rules today?

Of course not; those people were still alive — doctors just

did not know what to do about it. In the same way, most people who

are declared dead TODAY would be called “alive” by doctors of the

future. With that prospect in mind, we think these patients should

be considered “alive” NOW, and we should do something to KEEP them

that way.

Even within the next 10-15 years, you are likely to be amazed

by the amount of progress in recovering patients from strokes, heart

attacks, and lack of oxygen to the brain.

Ultimately, it should be possible to recover patients as long

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as basic brain structure remains intact (several hours past the

point at which today’s doctors give up). In the next century, the

medical knowledge of the 1980’s will seem as primitive as the

medical understandings of one hundred years ago seem to us.

Cryonic suspension itself will cure nothing, but it buys time

for the patient, keeping his body virtually unchanged until a future

when his frozen condition may be considered only an extremely deep

coma.

Even now there is solid evidence that cooling the human body to

liquid nitrogen temperature (-320o F), with the use of techniques to

reduce freezing injury, can preserve the fine structure of the brain

indefinitely.

There is no guarantee that cryonic suspension will ever allow

for future revival. We do not know enough to state absolutely that

this procedure is workable. However, the case for the possible

future revival of suspended patients grows stronger all of the time.

One recent argument in favor of future repair and revival of

suspended patients was provided by K. Eric Drexler in his

fascinating book, ENGINES OF CREATION (Doubleday, 1986).

This book details the beginnings of the new field of

“nanotechnology” (also called “molecular engineering”).

Nanotechnology is the next step smaller than micro-technology,

and it will create industries which will operate by working with

atoms and molecules one at a time. Among other astounding

developments, this will lead to computers and cell repair machines

one thousand times smaller than a human cell.

Such devices could repair any disease or injury (including that

from freezing) by working directly on the cells themselves.

It must be pointed out that cryonicists are not people with

some fixation on cold temperatures. None of us want to be frozen.

We are simply people who like being alive, and who want to see the

future and all of its wonders. For us, cryonics provides a safety

net, a last-ditch attempt at life-saving which may give us the

chance to see that future.

Our cryonics organization, Alcor Life Extension Foundation

(“Alcor”), is a California not-for-profit corporation, registered

with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt scientific

organization.

Alcor has a fully equipped and operational research laboratory,

operating room, and patient storage facility in Riverside,

California.

Alcor was formed as a mutual aid society, where the members are

committed to helping each other. All Alcor board members,

officials, and suspension team personnel are required to be full

suspension members. We do not want a situation which could pit

“Alcor” against “the members.” Alcor IS its members.

All decisions on the safety of the patients and stability of the

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organization are made with the knowledge that they will affect

everyone in the organization.

If you would like further information, you may order the

following publications (among others) from Alcor:

ALCOR: THRESHOLD TO TOMORROW

(introductory booklet) FREE for 1st copy.

Extra copies $5.00 each.

THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF CRYONICS

(selected reprints) $10.00.

SIGNING UP MADE SIMPLE

(How to provide the legal and financial arrangements for cryonic

suspension, with filled-out sample forms.) $12.00.

Subscription to CRYONICS magazine

at $25.00 per year (12 issues).

Fascinating articles and discussion on the current state of

cryonics, plus science updates.

Please send check or money order; no cash over $1.00 please.

Phone toll-free to use Visa or MasterCard. Make all checks

payable to Alcor Life Extension Foundation and mail to:

Alcor Life Extension Foundation

12327 Doherty Street,

Riverside, California 92503

Telephone 800-367-2228.

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