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Ÿþc R Y O N I C S M a G a Z I N E , Q 1 2 0 1st quarter 2010 • Volume 31:1 Protecting Cryonics Arrangements from Third PartY Interference page 14 Read This if you want to live page 7 The Ethics of Cryonics Interference page 17 Options for Brain- ISSN 1054-4305 Threatening Disorders page 20 $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? Do you keep Alcor up-to-date about personal and medical changes? Does your Alcor paperwork still reflect your current wishes? Have you executed a cryonics-friendly Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care? Do you wear your bracelet and talk to your friends and family about your desire to be cryopreserved? Do you have hostile relatives or supportive relatives that are willing to sign a Relative’s Affidavit? Do you attend local cryonics meetings or are you interested in starting a local group yourself? Are you interested in contributing to Alcor? Contact Alcor at 1-877-462-5267 ext. 132 and let us know how we can assist you. AlcorAlcor hashas 900900 Members!!!Members!!! Alcor closed the year of 2009 with more than 900 members. Read Ralph Merkle’s “Let's Talk About Cryonics” in the 3rd quarter issue of Cryonics how to help us reach 1000 members. 1ST QUARTER 2010 • VOLUME 31:1 Contents 1st quarter 2010 • Volume 31:1 3 Executive Director’s Report ProtectingCOVER STORY: PAGE 14 Cryonics 11 Member Profile: ArrangementsfromAs much as we do not like to Adele Fournet admit the possibility, some of Musician and Alcor Member Third PartY Adele Fournet signed up for Interferencepage 14 the most formidable obstacles cryonics when she was 16 to our cryopreservation are years old! greedy relatives or hostile Readthird This ifparties. Rebecca Lively 17 The Ethics of Cryonics you want to livepage 7 presents a comprehensive Interference The Ethics of The law does not recognize overviewpage 17 of the legal strategies Cryonics Interference cryonics patients as being you can pursue to prevent alive, but does the uncertain Options for Brain- this. Ifpage you 18 want to protect state of cryonics patients entail Threatening Disorders yourself against these moral obligations of some ISSN 1054-4305 scenarios but are over- kind? $9.95 whelmed by all the 18 Teens and Twenties Meeting different legal options at your Strengthens Links between disposal, this article is for you. Cryonics Generations Cryonicists are not a dying breed! A report from the 2010 7 Read This if You Want to Live Teens and Twenties meeting. Robert Newport, M.D. and Michael Geisen 22 Book Review: Long Life? You think that you have completed your journey to meaningful There is no shortage of novels life extension by executing cryonics arrangements with Alcor. with a cryonics theme. Mike Not quite! Dr. Robert Newport and Michael Geisen walk you Perry reviews one of them for us. through 14 steps to improve your chance of survival. 23 Membership Report The state of Alcor membership at the 20 Options for Brain-Threatening Disorders end of December 2009. Mike Perry 24 Tech News The most important objective of Tech News editor Mike Perry cryonics is to preserve the brain reports on the health benefits as well as possible after legal of the "Mediterranean diet," death. But what can you do when machines that can print 3D you are faced with a disease that organs, and an avalanche of threatens your brain such as exciting stem cell research breakthroughs. Alzheimer's? www.alcor.org Cryonics/First Quarter 2010 1 FROM THE EDITOR elcome to the first electronic edition of Cr yonics! The decision to end Editor the paper version of the magazine was not easy but we are determined Aschwin de Wolf Wto produce an even better and more timely magazine. If you still have any remaining questions about this change please do not hesitate to contact Alcor Art Director or the editor. Jill Grasse The major theme of this issue of Cr yonics is how to protect yourself against hostile interference with your cryonics arrangements by family members or third Contributing Writers parties. This problem has always been with us but a number of highly published Robert Newport, M.D. legal cases have made more Alcor members aware of the importance of executing Michael Geisen the proper legal documents to minimize the possibility and negative consequences Rebecca Lively of such interference. R. Michael Perry, Ph.D. The one message that all contributors to this issue want to get across is that Aschwin de Wolf making cryonics arrangements is not enough. There is more to think about. Have Chana de Wolf you thought about specifying your cryonics wishes in your Living Will? Have you ________________________________ executed a Power of Attorney for Health Care to make decisions on your behalf when you are no longer able to do so? What about Advance Directives? Most Copyright 2010 people are not very familiar with these legal topics and we hope that this issue will by Alcor Life Extension Foundation help you understand them better to strengthen your chances of an uncontested All rights reserved. cryopreservation. Reproduction, in whole or part, without The opening article is “Read This if You Want to Live” by Robert Newport, M.D. and Michael Geisen. The authors identify no fewer than 14 steps that can permission is prohibited. improve your chances of a good and timely cryopreservation. Dr. Newport was also kind enough to include two legal documents that he himself has executed as Cr yonics Magazine is published quarterly. an example for our readers. My own small contribution concerns the largely unexplored topic of the To subscribe: call 480.905.1906 x101 ethics of cryonics interference. Cryonics patients do not receive the full legal pro- ________________________________ tection of living persons but that does not mean that those who interfere should get off the hook from a moral point of view. Address correspondence to: In our cover story Rebecca Lively works out in more detail the legal options Cr yonics Magazine to prevent hostile inference with your cryonics wishes. Interference doesn’t always 7895 East Acoma Drive, Suite 110 reflect outright hostility to cryonics. In some cases it is simply the greed of indif- Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 ferent family members that is sufficient to delay or prevent your cryopreservation. Phone: 480.905.1906 There is now a growing consensus that greedy family members should be faced Toll free: 877.462.5267 with strong incentives not to interfere. For example, you can add a no-contest Fax: 480.922.9027 clause to your Living Will so that even if a family member successfully prevents the cryopreservation of a cryonics member (s)he will get nothing. Perhaps you can Letters to the Editor welcome: even provide a financial incentive to ensure that your wishes ar e carried out. [email protected] One of the most tragic events that can happen to a person with cryonics arrangements is when a brain-threatening disorder progressively destroys your Advertising inquiries: personality and memory as you grow older. Mike Perry reviews the available 480.905.1906 x113 options for those who are faced with such grim prospects. On a more positive [email protected] note, Mike Perry also attended the January 2010 cryonics Teens and Twenties meeting and reports back. ISSN: 1054-4305 One of the attendees was Adele Fournet. Adele signed up with Alcor when she was 16(!) years old as a joint decision with her father. This issue’s member I Visit us on the web at www.alcor.org profile presents further evidence of how Alcor’s demographics are changing. Alcor News Blog www.alcornews.org/weblog 2 Cryonics/First Quarter 2010 www.alcor.org Executive Director’s Report Jennifer Chapman he first quarter of 2010 has been a the son secured release of the individual http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/ busy time. We navigated a last- from the medical examiner’s office and pr2010-02-22.html Tminute case, prevailed in an epic legal signed the membership agreements, we battle in the state of Colorado on behalf of approved A-2469 as an Alcor patient. We March 1: Colorado Springs Court patient Mary Robbins, and negotiated a placed the patient on dry ice and drove her Upholds Desire of Alcor Member to favorable resolution with a medical examiner back to Alcor for neuroseparation and a be Cryopreserved in the state of Florida for a long-time straight freeze procedure. A-2469 became http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/ member. Although all three were straight Alcor’s 90th patient. pr2010-03-01.html freeze cases, an outcome we intently try to avoid, we fought hard for the best interests A-1926: Fighting For Your Rights March 3: Alcor and Robbins Family of these patients and gained important expe- On Friday, February 6th, we were Reach Amicable Settlement rience in the process. We continue to contacted by the family of Mary Robbins (A- http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/ monitor several members facing various 1926). Mary had been admitted to the pr2010-03-03.html degrees of risk, while moving ahead with hospital for complications associated with a our technical development and patient care recent cancer diagnosis. In fact, Mary had Three Alcor representatives testified at initiatives. We also processed our first mem- contacted Alcor herself only a month prior, a hearing about this matter, and the court bership dues increase in nearly a decade. after learning of her diagnosis, to ensure her found our testimony credible. After weeks Read on for a more detailed explanation of Alcor membership was in order.
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