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From: Kevin Q. Brown
Subject: Cryonics Organization List
Date: 8 Jan 1991
Here is my first pass at a list of cryonics-related organizations. The list
is in two parts:
(1) those organizations with suspension capability (or that are working
toward achieving suspension capability) and
(2) those organizations that support cryonics in other ways (including life
extension publications run by cryonicists).
Please let me know of any omissions or corrections!
- Kevin Q. Brown
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Alcor, ACS, and CI have suspension capability. The Cryonics Association of
Canada does not perform cryonic suspensions (but has done one permafrost
interment in Northern Canada). I am not sure what the newly formed
International Cryonics Foundation supports, but my guess is that they would
make arrangements with Trans Time. I have not included domestic (USA)
coordinators (with local transport capability) associated with Alcor or ACS.
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
12327 Doherty St.
Riverside, CA 92503
(714) 736-1703 & (800) 367-2228
FAX (714) 736-6917
Email:
Cryonics magazine, monthly, $25./yr. USA,
$35./yr. Canada & Mexico, $40./yr. overseas
($10./yr. USA gift subscription for new subscriber)
Note: Alcor is the membership and caretaking organization and the
suspensions are performed by Cryovita, which is located at the same address.
American Cryonics Society (ACS)
P.O. Box 761
Cupertino, CA 95015
(408) 446-4425 & (408) 255-1763
FAX (408) 973-1046, 24 hr FAX (408) 725-0385
Supporting membership, including American Cryonics and American
Cryonics News $35./yr. USA, $40. Canada & Mexico, $71. overseas
(Note: The Immortalist (below) includes American Cryonics News.)
Note: The American Cryonics Society is the membership organization
and the suspensions and caretaking are done by Trans Time.
Cryonics Institute (CI)
24443 Roanoke
Oak Park, MI 48237
(313) 547-2316 & (313) 548-9549
The Immortalist Society, which has the same address and phone number,
publishes The Immortalist, monthly, $25./yr. USA, $30./yr. Canada
and Mexico, $40./yr. overseas. Airmail $52. Europe, $62. Asia or
Australia. A gift subscription ($15./yr. USA, $25. outside USA)
includes a free book (The Prospect of Immortality or Man Into Superman).
Cryonics Society of Canada
P.O. Box 788, Station A
40 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5W 1G3
Canadian Cryonics News, quarterly, $10./yr. or $14./yr. overseas
International Cryonics Foundation
1430 N. El Dorado
Stockton, CA 95202
(209) 463-0429
Alcor UK, associated with Alcor Life Extension Foundation, does not (yet) do
the suspensions and caretaking themselves, but they are well-equipped, with
their own building and laboratory, and have initial training in transport and
perfusion.
Alcor UK
Unit 18
Potts Marsh Estate, Eastbourne Road
Westham, East Sussex
Voice: 0323-460257
FAX: 03212-6050
The Biostasis Letter, Editor: Luigi Warren (call or write for prices)
Alcor has an organization in Australia that is rapidly gaining transport
capability.
Cryonics Association of Australia
Cryonics Australia, bimonthly, A$5./yr. in Australia, A$15./yr. elsewhere
Robert Cardwell
P.O. Box 207
Darlinghurst, N.S.W. 2010
Australia
I have no recent news about the New Zealand organization, associated, I
believe, with ACS. Here is the information from a couple of years ago:
Pacific Cryobionic Society
P.O. Box 986
33 Cannington Road
Dunedin, New Zealand
Telex, 5793 AI UNIV
Telefax (64) <24> 778681
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These organizations are not directly associated with cryonic suspensions,
but they do support cryonics in other ways. I have not included cryonics
dinner meetings or cryonics discussion groups.
Citizens for an Extended Lifespan (CEL)
9149 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 139
Los Angeles, CA 90045
CEL is a California-based political action group for promoting legal
and political support favorable to cryonicists.
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Kevin Q. Brown
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Cryonics-related news available free to anyone with an InterNet or UUCP
email address. Anyone on the list with cryonics news can send email to
Kevin Brown, who will distribute it electronically to everyone on the list.
Extropy
P.O. Box 77243
Los Angeles, CA 90007-7243
(213) 746-5571
CompuServe: 76436,3157
Published twice a year, $3./issue USA, $4.50/issue foreign surface,
$5./issue foreign air, payable to "Max More"
Extropy, published by Tom W. Bell and Max More, describes itself as:
"a journal of ideas, dedicated to discussing and developing
themes in the following areas: Life extension, immortalism and
cryonics, artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive science and
neuroscience, intelligence-increase technologies, nanotechnology,
memetics, space colonization, uploading, spontaneous orders
(free markets, neural networks, evolutionary processes, etc.),
science fiction, extropic psychology, futurist morality, reviews,
transhumanism, and futurism."
Each issue has a large "Extropian Resources" list of Biostasis
Organizations, Other Life Extensionists/Immortalists, Extropian
Science Fiction, Space, and Misc.
Life Extension Foundation
P.O Box 229120
Hollywood, FL 33022-9120
(800) 841-LIFE & (305) 966-4886
Life Extension Report, monthly, $27./yr.
Membership ($50./yr.) gives Life Extension Report + 25% off products of:
Life Extension International
1142 W. Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ 85013-9985
(800) 544-0577
This is Saul Kent's excellent progress report on life extension research.
New World's BBS
Sysop: Joe Dumanov
24-hr, free, 8-N-1 2400 baud
(201) 729-9538
Has an active cryonics conference.
Periastron
Editor: Thomas Donaldson
P.O. Box 2365
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
CompuServe: 73647,1215
$2.50/issue in USA, $3.50/issue outside USA
"PERIASTRON will discuss any scientific or technical issue relating to
cryonics and immortalism. It will not be a periodical giving news about
individual societies or even legal developments (unless, that is, they
pertain to the scientific and technical issues)."
Reanimation Foundation
c/o Saul Kent
16280 Whispering Spur
Riverside, CA 92504
(800) 841-LIFE
The Reanimation Foundation is set up to enable you to "take it with you"
and provide financial support for your reanimation, reeducation, and
reentry. It is based in Liechtenstein, which does not have a Rule Against
Perpetuities, and thus allows financial assets to be owned by a person long
after the person is declared legally dead.
The Society for Venturism
P.O. Box 458
Wrightwood, CA 92397
Venturist Monthly News, Editor: Mike Perry, P.O.B. 8511, Riverside, CA 92515
$12./yr. USA, $15./yr. Canada & Mexico, $18./yr. overseas.
The Venturists are a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt scientific, religious, and
educational organization, serving as a cryonics "religion" and forum
for immortalist philosophy "promoting immortality through science."
Fred and Linda Chamberlain have gone back to school and no longer can
support their cryonics-related organizations/publications: Lifepact,
Federation of Cryonics Societies (FOCUS), and LifeQuest. Lifepact was
created to form a mutual support group of cryonicists who will help
ensure each other's reanimation, reeducation, and reentry. The Lifepact
duties apparently are now being taken over by Norm Lewis and Jim Stevenson.
I don't know who, if anyone, is supporting FOCS (an organization for
promoting self-regulation among the cryonics suspension organizations)
or LifeQuest (cryonicist and immortalist fiction).
Lifepact News
write to:
Norm Lewis
1828 San Pablo
Berkeley, CA 94702-1624
or
Jim Stevenson
3191 Mackall Way
Palo Alto, CA 94306
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