For this month’s column, I have been asked to write about how to start a viable and well-attended local life extension group. I suppose the
(Or, Corporations are People, Too…) In my last article, I looked at some historical and contemporary examples of legal activism aimed at expanding legal personhood to beings not
Legal Approaches Toward Cryonics Patient Personhood The current medico-legal definition of death creates numerous obstacles to the successful resuscitation and reintegration of cryonics patients: our
The “uncanny valley” is a theory described in 1970 by robotics professor Masahiro Mori which posits that as a robot’s appearance becomes more human-like, observer
The latter half of therapeutic cryopreservation involves three “R”s: resuscitation, rehabilitation, and reintegration. Of the three, reintegration receives the least attention as to its content, so permit me to deconstruct
Doodeward v. Spence, a 1908 case out of the High Court of Australia[1], addressed a very difficult question: could human remains be property? The facts
“SECTION 11. PERSONS THAT MAY RECEIVE ANATOMICAL GIFT; PURPOSE OF ANATOMICAL GIFT” Thus begins a very important section of a very important piece of legislation.
There is little disagreement among cryobiologists that the biggest limiting factor to reversible organ cryopreservation is cryoprotectant toxicity. It is actually not that hard to
Breaking News [Media Press Package with additional detail] A team from 21st Century Medicine has developed a technology that has been independently verified to enable near-perfect,
A lot of interesting pieces related to cryonics have appeared over the last few months that I thought I would share: Four professors conclude in