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Alcor’s 121st Patient

Larry Sharp, member A-1117, was declared legally dead early on January 9, 2014. A neuro member, Larry arrived at Alcor that afternoon. Larry is a long-time Alcor member who some of us remember well from meetings in Southern California in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Alcor’s 120th Patient

A-2699, a whole body member, was declared legally dead on November 22, 2013. Due to the circumstances, the Medical Examiner insisted on an autopsy. Alcor received the patient on November 27, 2013.

Alcor’s 119th Patient

A-2030, a confidential 91-year old whole body member, was declared legally dead on November 22, 2013, and arrived at Alcor at 12:08pm the next day. Suspended Animation took charge of the case on Wednesday November 20 and dispatched a team to the patient’s location on the East Coast. A relative of the patient paid for […]

Support Alcor Life Extension Foundation by Shopping on AmazonSmile

When you shop at AmazonSmile, Amazon will donate to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Inc.  Please support us every time you shop. http://smile.amazon.com Click on the link above and set up your favorite charity as Alcor Life Extension Foundation.  The price of the item(s) you purchase will not change but a donation will be sent to […]

Alcor in NOVA web special

There wasn’t enough room to include Alcor and cryonics in the very recent NOVA Making Things Colder show but the footage was used for a web special, which was just put online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/cryonics.html

Alcor’s 118th Patient

On Friday, November 1, 2013 a newly signed up international member became Alcor’s 118th patient. A-2694, a confidential whole-body member, was declared clinically dead on October 27th in the Czech Republic. A-2694 completed sign-up paperwork just four days before being pronounced and we confirmed receipt of payment for his cryopreservation on the day of pronouncement. […]

Annual Southern California Cryo Feast

Please join us to kick off the holiday season with other Southern California Cryonocists, life extensionists, futurists, and longevity and health enthusiasts. A CNN documentary series team will also be there to shoot footage of our party and interview some of the attendees (only those who choose to be interviewed of course). This is also […]