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F A Albin & Sons - Independent Funeral Directors
Providing personal service, prepaid funerals, embalming and cryonics. Provides details of services, locations and contact information.
http://www.albins.co.uk/
Cryonics Europe
cryonics Europe cryonics Europe is a support and discussion group, based in Sussex,for people in Britain and the rest of Europe who are signed up for
http://www.cryonics-europe.org/

Extractions: Cryonics Europe is a support and discussion group, based in Sussex, for people in Britain and the rest of Europe who are signed up for cryopreservation or who are considering it. They hold meetings in Sussex and at different locations in the UK and have an active email discussion group. Click here to join our discussion group.
Cryonics And You
From CryoCare. 10 printed pages.Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonics Introductions cryonics and You. An Introduction to cryonics. Converted to HTML, December20, 1995. Welcome to the Future. But it will come. Introducing cryonics.
http://www.cryocare.org/intro.html

Extractions: Cryonics is about the future. It is about our personal future, the future of humanity, and the relationship between the two. Predicting the future is a dangerous business, and this booklet does not pretend to be a crystal ball. Sometimes, however, there are trends in science and technology that are so overwhelmingly powerful, some consequences seem inevitable. This booklet, and the science of cryonics, are based on a vision of the future that we at CryoCare Foundation believe to be both foreseeable and compelling. It is a future with computers the size of bacteria, cures for all of today's diseases, and people who live in good health and youth for centuries. If these developments sound too fantastic to be believed, you need read no further. If, however, you can imagine a future of such dramatic potential, please read on. What will medicine be like 100 years from now? If physicians a century ago had been asked this question, how many would have foreseen antibiotics, gene therapy, and MRI machines? Probably none. In fact no radiologist could have foreseen MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) even 30 years ago. The developments leading to MRI were occurring in computer science and physics labs, not radiology departments. Sometimes we have to look outside medicine to see where the next medical breakthroughs will come from.
Future.newsday.com / Cryonics
Newsday article asking why the promise of cryonics hasn't been proven yet. Part of a series on the Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonicscryonics in a Deep Freeze Predictions from the past that haven't cometrue yet Armitage described cryonics as pseudoscience.
http://future.newsday.com/1/fbak0205.htm

Extractions: Frederick Horn, above left, who owned the St. James Funeral Home, and Curtis Henderson, president of the Cryonics Society of New York, inspect a capsule in which a dead Bronx man would be frozen. (Editor's Note: The current owner of the St. James Funeral Home has no connection with cryonics.) Cryonics in a Deep Freeze Staff Writer T HE WORD "cryonics" the practice of freezing a dead body in hopes of someday reviving it didn't enter the dictionary until 1967. But 200 years earlier, Ben Franklin was dreaming of a frozen ride to immortality. Writing to a French colleague, Franklin mused: "I wish it were possible . . . to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence . . . "In all probability, we live in a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to see such an art brought in our time to its perfection." Today, a tiny group of biologists is still trying to bring cryonics "to its perfection." A far larger group of debunkers, however, says cryonics is little more than bogus science. Its promise, they say, will never be fulfilled.
Cryonics Europe
http://www.cryonics-europe.org/ce.htm
TRANS TIME Cryonics Intro -- A Simple Proposition
Trans Time's Introduction to cryonics. 3 printed pages.Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonics IntroductionsTRANS TIME's Introduction to cryonics. A tutorial designed to give the readera broad overview of the scientific field of cryonics.
http://www.transtime.com/cryintro/cryintro.htm

Extractions: A Simple Proposition A s mankind prepares to launch itself into a new millenium, the only thing that seems certain about our future is that there will be change. For many years now, our society and culture have been undergoing unprecedented transformation, thanks in part to the effects of improving technology. For some, the accelerating pace of change seems disconcerting, maybe even frightening. Such people see more upheaval and chaos than renaissance and revolution. But for many of us, there is an altogether different feeling, a feeling that there has never been a more exciting time to be alive. In the field of medicine in particular, there is cause for great optimism. We have never had greater power for restoring, maintaining and extending health, and yet the big payoff is clearly still ahead of us. Each year that passes marks a new record for medical research funding, and the impetus to greatly increase that funding is gaining strength daily. Many scientists now believe that, given enough time and money, most or all of today's major illnesses and causes of death might one day be cured through increasingly precise, molecular-based technology. Perhaps more startlingly, it even seems possible that the aging process itself (which is beginning to look less mysterious and more like other diseases) might also be cured through medical means, maybe even during the 21st century. In time, human beings might live such long, healthy lives that they begin to view the current average lifespan of nearly 80 years much as we view the less than 25 year lifespan of prehistoric humans (i.e.
Cryonics Information Online
A new discussion forum on cryonics, attempting to focus on science issues. Also some links to basic Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonicscryonics.Info Definitive Information on cryonics. The cryonics Institutereceived its 45th human wholebody patient in December 2002.
http://cryonics.info/

Extractions: Login Cryonics has been defined as "the technology for freezing a person after a terminal illness or a fatal accident, in the hope that medical science will be able to revive that person in the future, when life extension and anti-aging have become a reality". Cryonic suspension is an emergency medical procedure designed to save lives (much like Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation), a last-ditch effort to forestall irreversible brain damage. Since the first individual was cryonically preserved in 1967, a handful of firms have sprung up offering cryopreservation and/or storage services to the general public. (Badger, 1998) The Cryonics Institute received its 45th human whole-body patient in December 2002. Volunteers rescue the Cryonics Institute's 43th cryopatient "The defining political conflict of the 21st century will be the battle over life and death." Forever Young: The new scientific search for immortality SUSPENDED ANIMATION SURGERY'S FRONTIER: Man cooled to near-death for 'impossible' brain operation Tens of thousands of embryos are now frozen in fertility clinics Why Cryosuspension Makes Sense ... Browse the archives on Immortalist Philosophy or subscribe to the Immortal List) Download issues of Alcor Forum. (over 1MB, PDF format)
Danish Cryonics Support Group
The DCSG consists primarily of Danish members of the cryonics Institute (CI) and those interested in becoming members of a suspension organization. The site is in both English and Danish.
http://cryo.secureid.org/

Extractions: Login [Dansk] Cryonics has been defined as "the technology for freezing a person after a terminal illness or a fatal accident, in the hope that medical science will be able to revive that person in the future, when life extension and anti-aging have become a reality". Cryonic suspension is an emergency medical procedure designed to save lives (much like Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation), a last-ditch effort to forestall irreversible brain damage. Since the first individual was cryonically preserved in 1967, a handful of firms have sprung up offering cryopreservation and/or storage services to the general public. (Badger, 1998) This web site is maintained by the Danish Cryonics Support Group (DCSG). It consists primarily of Danish members of the Cryonics Institute (CI) and those interested in becoming members of a suspension organization. People wishing to be kept up to date about activities should sign up for site membership. This is not the same as membership in the Danish Cryonics Support Group. Site membership permits reading and responding in the discussion forum. No messages are sent from this site except upon request, and they can be turned off at any time (see Policies below). The membership list is not public. As part of its public information program, lectures are available on a variety of topics, including technologies related to life-extension (genetic engineering, anti-ageing drugs, nanotechnology, cryonic suspension, health informatics), social implications of these new technologies, and philosophical foundations of the movement.
Cryonics
What is cryonics? Many people confuse the terms cryogenics list and thesci.cryonics newsgroup. Here are some cryonics related cartoons
http://www2.latech.edu/~mike/cryonics.html

Extractions: Many people confuse the terms cryogenics, cryobiology, suspended animation, cryonic suspension, and cryonics. Here are my definitions of these terms, which I believe are pretty much standard. A (currently non-standard) medical technique for attempting to prevent the permanent cessation of life in individuals on the brink of death. It involves the use of low temperatures to halt metabolic decay. A person who is cryonically suspended can
Cryonics And Cryptography
cryonics, Cryptography, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation, a paper by Ralph Merkle, Ph.D.
http://merkle.com/merkleDir/cryptoCryo.html

Extractions: by Ralph C. Merkle Xerox PARC , 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304. This paper was published in the Proceedings of the First Extropy Institute Conference, held at Sunnyvale, California in 1994. Some changes have been made to this version. A more general overview of the technical feasibility of cryonics is available at http://www.merkle.com/cryo/techFeas.html Most people, if they think of cryonics at all, think of Woody Allen in Sleeper , Sigorney Weaver in Aliens , or Mel Gibson in Forever Young . The hero, after spending decades or centuries in the deep freeze, thaws out gradually and somewhat painfully. Rather stiff from the cold, the warmth of the new era slowly penetrates into their chilled limbs until they at last stretch and look about the world with renewed interest and vitality. Not! All in all, our hero is not going to simply thaw out and walk off. And yet the literature on freezing injury, on ischemia, and on the other damage likely caused by a cryonic suspension forced me to conclude that cryonics would almost surely work: how can this be? Fundamentally, people are made of molecules. If those molecules are arranged in the right way, the person is healthy. If the're arranged in the wrong way, the person is unhealthy or worse. While a surgeon's knife does indeed rearrange molecular structure, it does so only in the crudest fashion. The living tissue itself is what really arranges and rearranges the intricate and subtle molecular structures that underlie life and health. When the tissue is too badly damaged, when intracellular levels of ATP are too low to provide the energy the tissue needs to function, when its own internal structure is disrupted, it can no longer heal itself. Today's surgical tools, gross and imprecise at the cellular and molecular level, can no more aid in this process than a wrecking ball could be used to repair a Swiss watch.
Cryonics1
cryonics.
http://www2.latech.edu/~mike/cryonics1.html
Links: Cryonics Op Het Web
Links cryonics op het Web A cryonics providers.(alphabetisch) AlcorLife Extension Foundation; Alcor UK; American cryonics Society; cryonics.
http://www.giorgioproductions.com/cryonics/links.html

Extractions: Links: Cryonics op het Web A: Cryonics providers alphabetisch) Terug naar boven. B: Algemene Websites over Cryonics Open Directory Project : Pagina met links van Steve Bridge Cryonics . Een pagina van Anders Sandberg's belangrijke website. Ben Best Cryonics Topics Index Immortality FAQ . Goede vraag- en antwoord pagina van Bruce J. Klein Cryo Care Foundation - oude website: goede artikelen. Cryonet Archives : archieven van de Cryonet mailinglist. Cryonics. Resources for cryonics and life extension information . Pagina van Iggy Dybal. Cryonics . Artikel van Mark Prado Ralph Merkle's Cryonics website Cryonics Frequently Asked Question List . Door Tim Freeman; helaas al een tijdje niet meer bijgehouden. Cryonics in Russia ; door Mikhail Soloviev.
Cryonics Europe, US And Worldwide
A limited site with links to a handful of other sites; but might be useful for people looking for Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonicscryonics Europe, US and Worldwide cryonics, stay instead of rot orburn when You die. cryonics Europe, US and Worldwide. cryonics
http://www.expage.com/page/cryonics
Americancryonics.org
The oldest cryonics membership organization; founded in 1969 as the Bay Area cryonics Society. In Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonics
http://americancryonics.org/
The Society For The Recovery Of Persons Apparently Dead
A fascinating medical essay about the history of attempts to revive people who appear dead and the relationship of these ideas to cryonics. By Steven B. Harris, M.D.
http://www.skeptic.com/01.2.harris-dead.html

Extractions: From Skeptic vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 1992, pp. 24-31. A special Internet introductory subscription rate to Skeptic is available. For more information, contact Jim Lippard (lippard@skeptic.com). Contents: The history of technological innovation is the history of the tortuous paths which advances often take to acceptance. It might seem at first, from the many well-known instances of simultaneous discoveries, that it is the nature of important ideas to spring up newly everywhere, independently, as soon as the world is ripe for them. But this is only the view at first glance. In actuality, the "synchronicity" of discovery usually turns out to be a late phenomenon, one that follows a prodrome in which the "new" idea in question has long been around in some form or another, but steadfastly has been ignored. How long can an important idea be ignored? The model steam engine was demonstrated by Hero of Alexandria in the first century A.D., sixteen centuries before people started thinking along these lines again. Gregor Mendel published the basic principles of genetics in 1866, and was ignored until 1900. Oswald Avery published strong evidence that DNA was the principle of heredity in 1944, but no one really believed it until the time of Watson and Crick almost a decade later. The time varies, depending on circumstance.
The Society For Venturism
A nonprofit organization with the purpose of promoting the worldwide conquest of death and the continuation and enhancement of life through technological means, including cryonic suspension. Does not offer cryonics services. In Scottsdale, AZ.
http://www.venturist.org
Ucs
A bunch of goofy Scots who claim to have been doing cryonics for over 100 years, not to mention their Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonics Humorcryonics, Society, Universal cryonics Society. Click UCS' and come enterthe world of The Universal cryonics Society. UCS. WebStat hit counter.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vinforte/ucs.htm

Extractions: Cryonics, Society, Universal Cryonics Society Welcome to the Web Site of The Universal Cryonics Society We can be reached at 11 Burningbush Lane Firth of Fife, Scotland Tel. 011 44 41 785-9003 The Universal Cryonics Society was established in 1889 Our chief operating officers include: Seamus MacDuff, Chief Executive Officer Shivas Irons, M.D., PhD, Research Director Agatha McNaughton, Technical Sales Director Click "UCS' and come enter the world of The Universal Cryonics Society. UCS
Forever For All: Moral Philosophy, Cryonics, And The Scientific Prospects For Im
By R. Michael Perry, PhD. This book considers how the problems of death and the hereafter ought to Category Science Biology Cryobiology cryonics BooksForever For All Moral Philosophy, cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality.uPUBLISH.com. A rational and thorough exploration of human potential.
http://www.upublish.com/books/perry.htm

Extractions: A rational and thorough exploration of human potential. Few have considered, much less visualized, the profound changes set to occur over the next few decades through exponential advances in science and philosophy. Mike Perry has, and he shares his vision with eloquence. Jim Halperin, author of The Truth Machine and The First Immortal
Synthetic Pleasures: Film Information
Home page for documentary film about life extension, cryonics, body decoration, and other aspects of modern technological life.
http://www.caipirinha.com/Film/spcontent.html
Nanotechnology And Cryonics
cryonics. This process is known as cryonics. Until the mid1980's, the probabilityof cryonics being successful had to be considered as very slim.
http://www.futurescience.com/nanocryo.html

Extractions: NANOTECHNOLOGY In the final analysis, aging and death have only one cause: for whatever reason, the atoms and molecules in our bodies have moved from their proper positions; and other molecules and atoms have moved into positions where they should not be. The molecular machinery in our bodies maintains our lives by handling molecules at the molecular level. A molecular machine is a large molecule that manipulates other molecules, one at a time. We put random assortments of molecules, in the form of food, into our bodies; but these molecules are useless without the intricate molecular machinery in our bodies that sorts through the molecules, rearranging them as necessary, and transporting them to their proper places. When we take a supplemental vitamin or hormone or a medicine, all we can do with today's technology is to inject it into our bloodstream or swallow it, and hope that the body's molecular machinery will transport and use the substances properly. During surgery, even the most precise microsurgery, the surgeon's scalpel slices through thousands of cells moving trillions of molecules out of their proper positions. At the cellular level, every surgical procedure is an unbelievably crude operation. The surgeon relies heavily on the molecular machinery of the body to put things back in position after the surgery is over. If we could develop machines the size of viruses to continuously and efficiently maintain the molecules of our bodies, augmenting the natural molecular machinery in our bodies, we would never get sick. Such maintenance would have to include getting rid of the molecules that aren't supposed to be there.

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