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• 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

• 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

• Cryonics as an elective medical procedure

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) The two most popular technical arguments against human cryopreservation are that cryonics causes irreversible freezing damage and that the delay between pronouncement of legal death and the start of cryonics procedures Read More...
  Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 6:28 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, death, emergency medicine, critical care medicine, medicine, vitrification