The Third SENS Foundation L.A. Chapter Meeting is Saturday, October 2, 2010, at the Westwood Brewing Company (1097 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024-2907) from 4pm until 8pm. The third meeting will begin with a presentation by Dr. L. Stephen Coles (director of the Gerontology Research Group) who will give an update on DNA Sequencing […]
Jennifer Chapman Executive Director Board Report September 11, 2010 In April of 2009, we learned that Alcor member Orville Richardson had been buried in February of that year by his siblings. After a protracted legal dispute over the past 15 months, which was ultimately concluded in Alcor’s favor by the Iowa Court of Appeals, Orville […]
Response Team Activity Aaron Drake and Steve Graber were deployed to Missouri in mid-July. We had received an urgent call regarding a 96-year-old member who was having difficulty breathing due to a bout of pneumonia. The head nurse had contacted Alcor a few weeks earlier to say that it may be time to consider hospice […]
We were contacted a third time regarding a Washington-based member. He had been hospitalized for shortness of breath and was ultimately treated for blood clots in his lungs and leg. Two members, one in Arizona and the other in Minnesota, also proactively contacted Alcor regarding their upcoming surgeries, both with relatively low levels of risk. […]
The Annual Alcor Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for Saturday, September 11, 2010, at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ) at 11:00 A.M. (MT). Members and the public are encouraged to attend.
Membership Alcor had 924 members on its Emergency Responsibility List. Seven (7) memberships were approved during this month, no memberships were reinstated, four (4) memberships were cancelled and no members were cryopreserved. Overall, there was a net gain of three (3) members this month. Applicants Alcor had 54 applicants for membership. Seven (7) new applicants […]
An Australian production crew for the Adventist Media Network visited Alcor to film an episode for an upcoming series entitled “Beyond.” The project is a series of fifteen documentaries which follows a native Australian as he travels the world looking beyond and asking bigger picture questions about life in the modern world, religion, spirituality and […]
October 9-10, 2010 Alcor members and friends are cordially invited to attend Personalized Life Extension 2010 to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. The focus of the meeting is on actions we can each take NOW to extend our lives, and delay or prevent the diseases of aging. Conference organizers expect that cryonics […]
We would like to welcome our newest staff member, Steve Graber. Steve will be working with Alcor’s Transport Coordinator to perform standbys, postmortem stabilization, and transport of Alcor patients to Alcor’s cryopreservation facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. Additionally, he participates in training and outfitting regional groups around the world that assist with stabilization and transport of […]
In what has become the busiest 12 months of any previous year in Alcor’s history, we have cryopreserved three additional members during this past month of June. A-2371, who maintained confidentiality with respect to his membership, resided in Cleveland, Ohio. Alcor initiated an eight-day standby when the member fell critically ill during the month of […]