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Cryonics-Magazine-2018-02.Pdf A Non-Profit Organization MarchJanu - Aprilary 20152018 • VoVolumelume 36:139:2 Member Profile: Nancy Fisher Page 14 International Cryomedicine Experts (ICE) Page 10 Local New York Alcor Group Builds Strong Regional Cryonics Capabilities Page 18 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. A Non-Profit Organization COVER STORY: PAGE 14 March - April 2018 • Volume 39:2 Member Profile: Nancy Fisher Member Profi le: From Timbuktu to the Taj Mahal, Nancy Fisher explore the world with traveler, author, Page 14 creative consultant and cryonicist, Nancy Fisher. International Cryomedicine Experts (ICE) Page 10 On the cover: Nancy Fisher stands triumphant Local New York Alcor Group Builds Strong Regional on a skywalk in Krasnaya Polyana, the site of Cryonics Capabilities the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Page 18 ISSN 1054-4305 $9.95 10 International Cryomedicine Experts (ICE) Former Alcor employee Aaron Drake has launched a new standby company that aims to offer various levels of standby services to members of the major cryonics organizations, including Alcor. In this first article about ICE, Aaron explains why there is room for another standby organization and what their services will entail. 18 Local New York Alcor Group Builds Strong Regional Cryonics Capabilities New York City cryonicists are reviving their local group and response capabilities to make the city a new hub of cryonics activity. www.alcor.org Cryonics / March-April 2018 3 Editorial Board CONTENTS Saul Kent Ralph C. Merkle, Ph.D. R. Michael Perry, Ph.D. Editor 5 EDITORIAL Aschwin de Wolf What is Cryonics First Aid? Contributing Writers In cryonics the objective of first aid is to stabilize cryonics Aschwin de Wolf patients before a professional standby team can start Aaron Drake more advanced procedures. What does cryonics first aid Nancy Fisher entail, and what can be done to strengthen our first aid Max More, Ph.D. R. Michael Perry, Ph.D. infrastructure? Nicole Weinstock 6 CEO Update Copyright 2018 Max More outlines his goals for 2018, reports positive by Alcor Life Extension Foundation developments about the number of underfunded Alcor All rights reserved. members, and offers advice on how to protect pre-paid Reproduction, in whole or part, without Alcor arrangements against inflation. permission is prohibited. 22 Membership Statistics magazine is published bi-monthly. Cryonics How many members, associate members, and patients does Please note: If you change your address less Alcor have and where do they live? than a month before the magazine is mailed, it may be sent to your old address. 24 FOR THE RECORD Viability versus Inferability: Address correspondence to: A Plea to Consider an Option of Fixative-Stabilized Cryonics Magazine Cryopreservation 7895 East Acoma Drive, Suite 110 A case is made for implementing an elective cryonics Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 Phone: 480.905.1906 protocol that would incorporate chemical fixation along Toll free: 877.462.5267 with the usual cryoprotective perfusion. Such an option Fax: 480.922.9027 should be compatible with biological revival, for those uncomfortable with “uploading.” Among the possible Letters to the Editor welcome: advantages are reduction of deterioration during the [email protected] initial stages before the patient is cooled to cryogenic Advertising inquiries: temperatures (reduction of ischemic exposure), and 480.905.1906 x113 protection against future interruptions of cryogenic storage [email protected] due to social unrest or organizational failure. ISSN: 1054-4305 36 Revival Update Visit us on the web at www.alcor.org Mike Perry surveys the news and research to report on new Alcor News Blog developments that bring us closer to the revival of cryonics http://www.alcor.org/blog/ patients. 4 Cryonics / March-April 2018 www.alcor.org EDITORIAL Photo: Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation at 2340 E. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Bedford’s “home” about 1970. What IS Cryonics FIRST AID? By Aschwin de Wolf irst aid in medicine is defined as same: stabilize the condition of the patient. was not sufficiently recognized that there “the assistance given to any person What sets cryonics first aid apart from the would still be a large role to play for suffering a sudden illness or injury, comprehensive protocols of professional local cryonics groups in the provision Fwith care provided to preserve life, prevent standby organizations is the degree to which of cryonics procedures. It is only now the condition from worsening, or to this objective can be accomplished and the when we have come to appreciate the promote recovery.” Its aims can be summed equipment used. advantages of a “hybrid” standby model up as the three P’s: preserve life, prevent Cryonics first response entails three in which local team members provide first further harm, and promote recovery. With procedures: cooling, circulation, and aid, or interact with professional standby the exception of the aim of “promoting medications administration. One clear organizations, that there is a need to recovery” this framework is applicable to advantage that cryonics first aid responders clearly define the objectives, scope, and cryonics, too. have is that our most effective procedure, physical infrastructure associated with The rationale for allowing laypersons to cooling, is also the easiest to implement. cryonics first aid. provide basic medical procedures rests on What usually sets good cryonics first aid Some of the current questions about the recognition that the health condition apart from suboptimal cryonics first aid cryonics first aid that Alcor seeks to address of a person can rapidly change and/or is the efficiency of cooling achieved and include: What is the exact cryonics first professional responders may be unable get whether induction of hypothermia is aid protocol? Which items should be in a to the patient in a timely fashion. A major augmented by chest compressions and cryonics first aid kit? Should cryonics first difference between mainstream medicine medications administration. When cryonics aid kits be available to groups or also to and cryonics, however, is that in cryonics first aid is done competently response time individual members? What makes a local there often is no local professional response is fast, cooling rates are fast, circulation is group eligible for a full set of standby kits team that can deploy quickly to stabilize the restored, and a basic medications protocol instead of a first aid kit? What will cryonics patient. As a consequence, one would expect to prevent clotting, brain injury, and first aid training comprise? What is the to see more situations in which the initial, swelling is administered. difference between Alcor’s first aid protocol or even all, aspects of a cryonics case will The topic of cryonics first aid has not and Alcor’s abbreviated protocol designed need to be done by local volunteers—and received as much attention as other topics for professional standby teams in case of that is exactly what has been observed. This in cryonics. In the early days of cryonics it a delayed response? How do professional does not necessarily indicate a deficiency did not make sense to draw a distinction standby teams such as ICE and SA interact on the part of professional cryonics standby between cryonics first aid and advanced with local cryonics first aid responders? organizations. Cryonics is simply not big procedures because all procedures were Should first aid capabilities be enhanced enough to have professional response teams done by (trained) volunteers. And later, in areas with many members and an active in every state and major city. when professional cryonics standby local community? The objective of professional cryonics organizations were formed, the topic standby teams and cryonics first aid are the also received little attention because it www.alcor.org Cryonics / March-April 2018 5 CEO Update By Max More CEO GOALS FOR 2018 and transport) staff and forming • Implement at least one additional When I first sat down to come up with agreements with multiple on-call cooldown system. a first draft of proposed core goals for specialists 3. Raise funds for operations (including 2018, I ended up with a list of 17. “When • Ensuring that the Watch List is more technical/scientifically-skilled everything is a priority, nothing is a maintained and refreshed regularly. priority.” Based on further reflection and staff, and perhaps a COO), research, input from the board and talking to staff, • Contracting with an additional SST and an endowment.
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