Alcor Suspension Members Worldwide
• ICS Volume 14(4) • April, 1993 ISSN 1054-4305 • $3.50 Alcor Suspension Members Worldwide From 1993's "Membership Update" Derek Ryan, Membership Administrator -Plus- Two Reports on Alcor's Suspension of a Suicide Victim Ralph Whelan I Tanya Jones Cryonics is . .. Alcor is ... Cryonic suspension is the application of low-temperature The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is a non-profit tax preservation technology to today's terminal patients. The exempt scientific and educational organization. Alcor goal of cryonic suspension and the technology of cryonics is currently has 26 members in cryonic suspension, hundreds the transport of today's terminal patients to a time in the of Suspension Members--people who have arrangements to future when celVtissue repair technology is available, and be suspended-and hundreds more in the process of becom restoration to full function and health is possible--a time ing Suspension Members. Our Emergency Response when freezing damage is a fully reversible injury and cures capability includes equipment and trained technicians in exist for virtually all of today's diseases, including aging. New York, Canada, Indiana, North California, and As human knowledge and medical technology continue to England, and a cool-down and perfusion facility in Florida. expand in scope, people who would incorrectly be The Alcor facility, located in Southern California, considered dead by today's medicine will commonly be includes a full-time staff with employees present 24 hours a restored to life and health. This coming control over living day. The facility also has a fully equipped and operational systems should allow us to fabricate new organisms and research laboratory, an ambulance for local response, an sub-cell-sized devices for repair and resuscitation of patients operating room, and a patient storage facility consisting of waiting in cryonic suspension.
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