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• Second anniversary of Depressed Metabolism

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Today is the second anniversary of Depressed Metabolism. As of writing, this website has close to 200 feed subscribers. On an average day the website has 150 unique visitors, which is an encouraging increase in Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:59 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 1 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, science, Evidence Based Cryonics, Empiricism, Chana de Wolf, Against Politics, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Mike Darwin, Rudolf Carnap, Aschwin de Wolf, Karl Popper

• The emergence of local cryonics

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Real estate is all about location, location, location . Location matters in cryonics as well. The objective of standby and stabilization in cryonics is to limit injury to the brain after pronouncement of legal Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:57 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, cryonics institute, alcor, Portland, Oregon, Cryonics Oregon

• Cryonics and philosophy of science

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) The 2008-3 issue of Alcor’s Cryonics Magazine contains a number of articles about the pitfalls of (excessive) scientific optimism and its potential adverse effects on the organizational and practical aspects Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:53 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, death, meliorism, Information-theoretic Death, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Singularity, Transhumanism

• Buried alive?

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) According to this news item the Alcor Life Extension Foundation is taking legal action against the brother and sister of an Alcor member who “denied the foundation’s request for his body and didn’t Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:44 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, alcor, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, Hostile Relatives, Living Will, CryoCare

• Evidence based cryonics

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Cryonics patients can greatly benefit from rapid stabilization after pronouncement of legal death. One fortunate feature of stabilization procedures is that the most effective and validated procedures are relatively Read More...
  Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 7:02 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, alcor, Suspended Animation, Evidence Based Cryonics, Organ Preservation, Medications, Blood Washout

• Microvasculature perfusion failure in cryonics

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Under ideal circumstances cryonics patients are stabilized immediately after pronouncement of legal death by restoring blood flow to the brain, lowering temperature, and administering medications. In most cryonics Read More...
  Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 8:27 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, cerebral ischemia, No-Reflow, Erythrocytes, Sodium Borohydride, Cerebral Blood Flow

• DNA preservation and cryonics

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Following the news that mice have been cloned from 16 year old frozen tissue comes an announcement that scientists have made advances in resurrecting the extinct Pyrenean Ibex . This does not only offer hope that Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:28 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, cryonics institute, dna preservation

• 5 dangerous ideas about cryonics

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) The cryonics organizations Alcor and the Cryonics Institute have taken great care to correct some of the persistent myths about cryonics. With so much widespread misinformation being circulated in the media it Read More...
  Posted Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:38 PM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, vitrification, Thomas Donaldson

• Robert White on brain death

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism) Robert J. White is most known, or perhaps most notorious, for his work on primate head transplants. Less known, but more relevant to the practice of human cryopreservation, is his work in cerebral ischemia, hypothermia, Read More...
  Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 4:57 PM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, Robert J. White, Cryobiology, Brain Death

• The purple prose of suspended animation

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Esquire magazine features an article on scientist Mark Roth and his research into “suspended animation.” As the website title “The Mad Scientist Bringing Back the Dead…. Really” indicates, Read More...
  Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 8:19 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 1 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, vitrification, depressed metabolism, Information-theoretic Death, Suspended Animation, Ikaria, Mark Roth