Alcor member, Robert Revitz (A-1963) moved to Scottsdale specifically to be close to Alcor after he started his membership in 2002. He attended monthly Board of Director meetings and local meet-ups when he was able. Struggling from congestive heart failure in addition to bone cancer, he was occasionally admitted into local hospitals for respiratory relief. […]
Written by Cairn Erfreuliche Idun The Sixth Annual Young Cryonocists Gathering Teens & Twenties 6 2015 Getting to Know You – Getting to Know Each Other All While Being Updated on the Latest Research Fri-Sun: April 24-26, 2015 Las Vegas, NV Host: Life Extension Foundation Greetings to: All Young Cryonicists Please follow the link to the full […]
Alcor’s website has a new look! We wanted to bring the appearance of alcor.org up to date and make it more appealing. We also wanted to improve engagement with visitors. After a lot of work on the revision by John Bevens and his colleagues at Media Architects, with lots of input from me, and additional […]
The German Society of Applied Biostasis (DGAB) voted to bestow the Ettinger Award on Alcor director Saul Kent in recognition of his long-standing and unwavering commitment to and support of cryonics. The Award is given for outstanding achievements in cryonics and was previously bestowed on Robert Ettinger in 2010. I think the German group made […]
On September 24, 2014, Alcor’s membership reached 1000 for the first time. This is the first time any cryonics organization has had this many members with full financial and contractual arrangements for cryopreservation. (Counting all classes of members, total membership is 1255.) This represents a tiny fraction of the population of the United States and […]
Please join us to kick off the holiday season with other Southern California Cryonicists, life extensionists, futurists, longevity and health enthusiasts. This is an opportunity for you to meet up with old friends, make some new ones and you might even meet the perfect person to collaborate with on a project you’ve been thinking about or working on. We hope […]
Until now, Alcor has accepted only highly-assured means of payment such as life insurance, trusts, or prepayment for cryopreservation minimums. We will accept, on a limited basis, alternative funding methods. Here is the proposal that was passed at the September 13, 2014 board meeting: On an individual basis, Alcor will accept partial payment for cryopreservation […]
Until now, Alcor has added surcharges for the cryopreservation minimum for members outside the USA and Canada to compensate for higher response and transport costs. After reevaluating these costs – and despite a recent commitment to providing a higher level of response – Alcor is reducing these surcharges. The former surcharges were $15,000 for the […]
The Comprehensive Member Standby (CMS) fund enables Alcor to provide standby, stabilization, and transport services to all members in the United States and Canada. This is a critical part of the cryopreservation process. See: http://alcor.org/BecomeMember/standby.html The CMS has been funded by a fee of $180 per year. At the September 13, 2014 board meeting, the […]
We are pleased to announce that Alcor is reducing membership dues for the second consecutive year. Starting January 1, 2015, dues for Alcor cryopreservation members paying the full rate (currently $590) will be reduced by 10% (rounded to $530). Dues for members receiving any discount will not be changed. We are able to do this […]