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Member Profile: Russell Cheney Page 14 A Non-Profit Organization November - DecemberJanuary 20152018 • VoVolumelume 36:139:6 Member Profile: Russell Cheney Page 14 Two Legal Cryonics Victories Page 6 You CAN Take It With You Page 38 ISSN 1054-4305 $9.95 Improve Your Odds of a Good Cryopreservation You have your cryonics funding and contracts in place but have you considered other steps you can take to prevent problems down the road? ü Keep Alcor up-to-date about personal and medical changes. ü Update your Alcor paperwork to reflect your current wishes. ü Execute a cryonics-friendly Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care. ü Wear your bracelet and talk to your friends and family about your desire to be cryopreserved. ü Ask your relatives to sign Affidavits stating that they will not interfere with your cryopreservation. ü Attend local cryonics meetings or start a local group yourself. ü Contribute to Alcor’s operations and research. Contact Alcor (1-877-462-5267) and let us know how we can assist you. Visit the ALCOR FORUMS www.alcor.org/forums/ Discuss Alcor and cryonics topics with other members and Alcor officials. • The Alcor Foundation • Financial • Cell Repair Technologies • Rejuvenation • Cryobiology • Stabilization • Events and Meetings Other features include pseudonyms (pending verification of membership status) and a private forum. Visit the ALCOR BLOG www.alcor.org/blog/ Your source for news about: • Cryonics technology • Speaking events and meetings • Cryopreservation cases • Employment opportunities • Television programs about cryonics Alcor is on Facebook Connect with Alcor members and supporters on our official Facebook page: www.facebook.com/alcor.life.extension.foundation Become a fan and encourage interested friends, family members, and colleagues to support us too. CONTENTS 5 EDITORIAL 14 COVER STORY Good Cryonics is Local Alcor aims to respond Member Profile: to all of its members as Russell Cheney timely and professionally Redefine your understanding of as possible but common endurance with Russell Cheney. sense and experimental evidence indicates that A passionate distance runner being as close to Alcor as with at least one marathon and possible remains the most ultramarathon under his belt sensible choice for both from each U.S. state, Russell the member and Alcor. takes a breather to share family memories from his Mojave 20 FOR THE RECORD Desert hometown, his years Cryonics Newsletters: volunteering with one of Alcor’s Some Historical Highlights, Part 3, first emergency response teams, Cryonics Society of and his adventures roaming the California country in his 24’ Born Free Our multipart series on motorhome. cryonics newsletters here focuses on the newsletters of the Cryonics Society of 6 Two Legal Cryonics Victories California, 1967 – 1974. The year of 2018 witnessed two legal victories for cryonics. 40 Membership Statistics In the United Kingdom Cryonics UK prevailed in litigation to How many members, maintain its charitable status. In British Columbia, Canada associate members, and litigation forced a new interpretation of the law against patients does Alcor have offering cryonics services to allow well-informed individuals to and where do they live? contract with local cryonics providers. 41 Revival Update Mike Perry surveys 38 You CAN Take It With You (and here’s how) the news and research Alcor has been collaborating to create a Multi-Investor Future to report on new Income Trust that will allow members with more modest developments that bring assets to take their assets with them. Mark E. House visited the us closer to the revival of Alcor New York group to talk about what they are working on. cryonics patients. www.alcor.org Cryonics / November-December 2018 3 Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, Editorial Board Saul Kent I wanted to write a letter to enthusiastically endorse the excellent Ralph C. Merkle, Ph.D. R. Michael Perry, Ph.D. article by Max More in the Sept/Oct. CRYONICS issue. Long term cryonics funding enabling one’s coverage to be in Editor Aschwin de Wolf place and sufficient in the later years is a non-trivial problem. But it IS a problem that has some optimal and in many cases Contributing Writers affordable answers. Aschwin de Wolf Nancy Fisher Since it has been available for cryonicists, I have encouraged Tim Gibson my clients to utilize an INDEX Universal Life policy with a face Keegan Macintosh amount of double the current Alcor minimums. This means R. Michael Perry, Ph.D. Nicole Weinstock $440k for whole bodies, $200k for neuros, and even more is Carrie Wong better. Copyright 2018 In simple straightforward language, when it comes to obtaining by Alcor Life Extension Foundation cryonics funding life insurance, less is not more. More is more. All rights reserved. Extra coverage not currently needed can be directed to loved Reproduction, in whole or part, ones, charities, or an individual cryonics trust. without permission is prohibited. Overengineering your cryonics funding is THE most important magazine is published bi-monthly. Cryonics thing you can do for your long term benefit. And you being Please note: If you change your address less around in the future is important to the Universe, so please think than a month before the magazine is mailed, it big and get this one right. may be sent to your old address. Thanks to Max More for making this clear and explicit. Address correspondence to: Cryonics Magazine Rudi Hoffman CFP CLU ChFC 7895 East Acoma Drive, Suite 110 World’s Leading Cryonics Insuror Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 Phone: 480.905.1906 Toll free: 877.462.5267 Fax: 480.922.9027 Cryonics MAGAZINE ANNOUNCEMENT Letters to the Editor welcome: Starting in 2019, Cryonics magazine will switch to a quarterly format [email protected] and will continue as a more scholarly, in-depth publication. An extensive conversation between the Editor, contributors, and the Alcor Advertising inquiries: Board of Directors generated a consensus that Alcor will benefit from 480.905.1906 x113 a communication model in which time-sensitive and routine public [email protected] news will be served to its members in the form of monthly email ISSN: 1054-4305 newsletters and social media, whereas the magazine will become Visit us on the web at www.alcor.org the vehicle for more technical and scientific contributions. Features you can expect to see in the new Cryonics magazine include science Alcor News Blog updates, protocol developments, high-quality case reports, historical http://www.alcor.org/blog/ and philosophical contributions, Alcor R&D reports, and profiles of prominent scholars and scientists. — Aschwin de Wolf (Chief Editor) 4 Cryonics / November-December 2018 www.alcor.org EDITORIAL Photo: Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation at 2340 E. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Bedford’s “home” about 1970. GOOD Cryonics IS LOCAL By Aschwin de Wolf he enemies of a good cryonics and the patient that Alcor offers up to patient, more effort will need to be spent case are time and temperature. $10,000 in relocation assistance. To further in educating members of the advantages of Deployment of a standby team that incentivize such a choice, Alcor could timely relocation to the Scottsdale area. Tcan start rapid cooling upon circulatory consider further increasing the amount There might be one route to bringing arrest should take care of the temperature of relocation assistance and/or actively the hospital to the patient and that is challenge. The time element is more assist older and sick members to consider to encourage the creation of several of challenging. Even if a patient is stabilized relocating. “cryonics hubs” in areas with large numbers rapidly after pronouncement of legal Another solution is to bring all major of Alcor members. Support and recognition death, logistical and legal challenges can Alcor procedures to the location of the from Alcor for such initiatives is necessary interfere with timely transport to Alcor patient. This is easier said than done. but a decentralized approach could be for subsequent procedures. For example, Whereas a patient relocation does not effective here. Local members can start with if a patient is rapidly cooled down in require major expenditures and logistical creating a cryonics infrastructure to assist North Dakota but logistical challenges decisions on the part of Alcor, bringing professional standby teams. Such efforts can and flight schedules prevent arrival of the cryoprotection to the patient is a non-trivial include maintaining a list of pertinent local patient at Alcor until several days later, the task because it entails performing Alcor’s regulations, cooperating funeral homes, patient will still be subjected to progressive operating room procedures at a remote local volunteers and medical professionals, deterioration of the fine structure of the location. In practice, this can be done, and flight schedules. A more ambitious step brain, breakdown of the blood brain and Alcor has cautiously authorized “field would be to equip certain areas with a local barrier, swelling, and a number of processes cryoprotection” for overseas and selected rescue vehicle, as was done in the past in that prevent smooth cryoprotection of US cases. In principle field cryoprotection Southern California. A more ambitious step the brain, or even necessitate a “straight is possible for both neuro-patients and would be to equip such a vehicle for field freeze” (cryopreservation without a whole body patients but true whole body cryoprotection or even set up such facilities cryoprotectant). How should Alcor deal field cryoprotection would require the in a cooperating funeral home or building. with the challenge of having only one creation of an adequately equipped vehicle This is a formidable task that would require physical location in Arizona but being or satellite facility, not to speak of medical many hours of work and considerable responsible for members all over the world? expertise. Recognition of the fact that expenses but it would produce a more The most obvious solution is for a many Alcor members do not relocate when robust response infrastructure for Alcor terminal member to move to Alcor.
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