X-Message-Number: 286 From: Kevin Q. Brown Subject: Cryonics Organization List (Revised) Date: 19 Mar 1991 Here is my updated list of cryonics-related organizations and publications. Thanks to everyone who contributed updates. The list is in two parts: (1) those organizations with suspension capability (or that are working toward achieving suspension capability) and (2) those organizations and publications that support cryonics in other ways (including life extension publications run by cryonicists). Please let me know of any further omissions or corrections! - Kevin Q. Brown ...att!whscad1!kqb ----- Here is the list of organizations with cryonic suspension capability (or that are working to achieve cryonic suspension capability). I have not included domestic (USA) coordinators (with local transport capability) associated with Alcor or ACS. Alcor is the membership and caretaking organization and the suspensions are performed by Cryovita, which is located at the same address. 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) The American Cryonics Society is the membership organization and the suspensions and caretaking are done by Trans Time. 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.) The Cryonics Institute does its own suspension and caretaking of patients. 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). The Cryonics Association of Canada does not perform cryonic suspensions (but has done one permafrost interment in Northern Canada). 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 Cryovita does the cryonic suspensions for Alcor (and has the same address). Cryovita 12327 Doherty St. Riverside, CA 92503 (714) 734-0139 The International Cryonics Foundation has arrangements with Trans Time to do the cryonics suspensions and caretaking of patients. International Cryonics Foundation 1430 N. El Dorado Stockton, CA 95202 (209) 463-0429 (800) 524-4456 Trans Time does suspensions and caretaking for both ACS and ICF and also has taken on suspension customers directly who didn't go through either non-profit organization. Trans Time, Inc. 10208 Pearmain St. Oakland, CA 94603 415-639-1955 Email: 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 England 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 ----- 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. CEL is a California-based political action group for promoting legal and political support favorable to cryonicists. Citizens for an Extended Lifespan (CEL) 13354 Veracruz Street Cerritos, CA 90701-4644 Contact person: Allen J. Lopp (213) 926-5470 CompuServe: 73750,670 Cryonics-related news is 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. cryonics mailing list Kevin Q. Brown ...att!whscad1!kqb Extropy, published by Tom W. Bell and Max More, is a "journal of ideas" on a wide variety of topics: life extension, immortalism and cryonics, neuroscience, nanotechnology, memetics, and much more. Each issue has a large "Extropian Resources" list of Biostasis Organizations, Other Life Extensionists/Immortalists, Extropian Science Fiction, Space, and Misc. 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" Life Extension Report is Saul Kent's excellent progress report on life extension research. 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 Joe Dumanov's BBS has an active cryonics conference including several bulletins of useful cryonics-related reference information. He recently installed echo-mail (using SmartNet) and is extending this cryonics conference to other BBS's on the echo-mail network. New World's BBS Sysop: Joe Dumanov 24-hr, free, 8-N-1 1200/2400/9600 baud (201) 729-9538 "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)." Periastron Editor: Thomas Donaldson P.O. Box 2365 Sunnyvale, CA 94087 CompuServe: 73647,1215 $2.50/issue in USA, $3.50/issue outside USA 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. Reanimation Foundation c/o Saul Kent 16280 Whispering Spur Riverside, CA 92504 (800) 841-LIFE 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." 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. Note: Mike Perry also is editor of the (sporadically published) Abiolysist Macroscope, the newsletter of the American Mensa, Ltd. Abiolysig Special Interest Group. This newsletter may soon get the new name "Abolish Mortality!" 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 are now being taken over by Norm Lewis and Jim Stevenson since the founders (Linda and Fred Chamberlain) have gone back to school and no longer can support it. Lifepact News write to: Norm Lewis 1828 San Pablo Berkeley, CA 94702-1624 or Jim Stevenson 3191 Mackall Way Palo Alto, CA 94306 email: LifeQuest (cryonicist and immortalist fiction) is being reanimated by Jim Stevenson. LifeQuest had been dormant since the creators (Linda and Fred Chamberlain) went back to school and no longer could support it. LifeQuest Jim Stevenson (same address as above) ----- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=286