X-Message-Number: 20524
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:55:32 -0700
From: Jerry Lemler <>
Subject: New Patient

      On the evening of Wednesday, November 27th, the Alcor Life Extension 
Foundation received its 54th cryosuspension patient, the record setting 7th 
of this calendar year.  Alcor Standby Rescue Team Members, led by Director 
of Suspension Services, Charles Platt, were present in the patient's 
residence, less than 15 minutes from the central facility, at the time of 
pronouncement, by the home hospice nurse in attendance.
      Fortuitously, this Alcor member and his wife had recently relocated 
to Scottsdale for the express purpose of obtaining a more optimal 
cryosuspension experience.  This move (from south Florida), was prompted by 
the ministrations of our good friend, Bill Faloon.  The value of such vital 
logistical foresight should not be overestimated.  The patient experienced 
cardiac arrest at 8:20 PM Arizona time, and was transported to the Alcor 
facility, where the surgical team and operating room staff were already in 
place, waiting to receive him.  Cryoprotective perfusion with vitrification 
solution was completed without incident in the early hours of Thursday, 
November 28.  Although the patient's right carotid artery had been 
obliterated by a very large tumor, perfusion through the remaining vessels 
was exceptionally rapid and thorough.
      On this occasion, the Alcor team was joined by the foundation's 
former Cryotransport Manager, Tanya Jones.  We are most grateful to Tanya 
(now a veteran of 20 such procedures), for offering us her expertise in 
this most successful rescue effort.
      As an addendum, Alcor management, ever cognizant of the member 
relocation issue, is in the preliminary stages of formulating plans (White 
Paper), for the possible acquisition of a permanent local facility to 
accommodate our terminal patients and their immediate family (s.o., etc.) 
members.  Such a facility could offer not only basic lodging requirements, 
but could, as well, incorporate premortem and postmortem death and dying 
and grief management counseling with anciliary social services-- all at a 
projected zero cost to our members.

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