On Sunday, October 7, 2007 Alcor Life Extension Foundation held an open house at their facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. What seems to be evident from taking a tour of the facility is Alcor’s commitment to patient and member services as well as a future in which their customers will be revived and restored to health. Alcor is no graveyard.
Frontier Channel liveblogging from the 7th Alcor Conference:
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Introduction
Day 1
Steve Bridges
Brian Wowk
First Break
Stephen Van Sickle
Tanya Jones
Luncheon
Ralph Merkle
Michael West
Afternoon Break
Aubrey de Grey
Alcor Board of Directors Panel
Day 2
Morning Panel
Steven Harris
Morning Break
Calvin Mercer
Christine Peterson
Chris Heward
No Graveyard
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
[Recap]
Chris Heward discussed his work on the “Kronos Longitudinal Aging Study (KLAS)” as a measurement of human aging. KRONOS Science Laboratory is a research institution in Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Heward showed a graph of progress in life expectancy at birth and at 65. Life expectancy at birth has experienced [...]
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
Christine Peterson presented “Good News, Bad News, Surprising News” about life extension. She now spends about half time studying life extension as an enthusiast.
She began by stating that terminology matters. Which terms are best: life extension, health extension, anti-aging, longevity, immortality, or permanent health?
Since we are made [...]
[Recap]
Calvin Mercer asked “Cryonics and Religion: Friends or Foes?” Cryonics, Mercer believes, will require support from more people than just scientists, including religious people. How should cryogenics supporters present these ideas to religious people?
How the discussion will play out, according to Mercer, will include debates between liberal and conservative viewpoints, anthropocentric versus theocentric beliefs, materialism [...]
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
Popcorn, cookies, and pretzels. We talked to a couple who are musicians and Alcor members about how art can be used to promote life extension and transhumanism.
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
[Recap]
Calvin Mercer asked “Cryonics and Religion: Friends or Foes?” Cryonics, Mercer believes, will require support from more people than just scientists, including religious people. How should cryogenics supporters present these ideas to religious people?
How the discussion will play out, according to Mercer, will include debates between liberal and [...]
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
[Recap]
Steven Harris is a researcher developing “Rapid Body Cooling for Prevention of Brain Damage.” Rapid body cooling technologies are important to both cryonics and emerging short-term treatments. Hypothermia induced by lowering the body temperature by 4 degrees Celsius in five minutes could allow sufficient time for medical care [...]
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
Day two of the Alcor Conference. The day began with the “Human Cryopreservation and Critical Care Medicine Panel,” including Alcor’s Tanya Jones, critical care physician David Crippen and bioethicist Leslie Whetstine and moderated by Aschwin de Wolf.
[Recap]
The panelists discussed the various definitions death, including legal and biological, and the [...]
[Alcor Conference - Table of Contents]
Stephen Van Sickle, Ralph Merkle, Michael R. Seidl, and Brian Wowk of the Alcor Board of Directors answered questions from the audience for the last session of the day. The Board addressed questions about the current state of Alcor finances. Alcor is financially stable, with the following sources [...]