X-Message-Number: 33168
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:26:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: Cryopreservation since 1990

Luke Parrish wrote:

> If I understand correctly, CI does not even officially provide  
> stabilization services. They provide storage, and that's it. That  
> the patient who was signed up in advance was perfused is a positive  
> indication that CI members are taking initiative to get perfusion  
> when needed.

Actually, Luke, the typical signed-up Cryonics
Institute (CI) patient is simply packed in ice by
a funeral director and shipped to Michigan for cryoprotectant
perfusion and controlled cool-down in a computer-controlled
cooling box. No extra initiative is required for
CI Members with pre-mortem funding and contracts in place
to be perfused with CI's vitrification solution.

Some CI Members arrange for a funeral director
or friends to do standy. Jack Zinn, CI's 91st
patient, received standby from a team of volunteers:

http://www.cryonics.org/reports/CI91.html

Standby/Stabilization services for CI Members
is an optional extra which some CI Members arrange
on their own. Some CI Members in the United
States arrange by contract with Suspended Animation, Inc.
at an additional cost of about $60,000 on top
of CI's usual fees. As of the end of December, 2010
there are 94 CI Members (including myself) who
have arranged for Standby/Stabilization/Transport
from Suspended Animation, Inc. in addition to
the usual contracts with CI.

  -- Ben Best, President, Cryonics Institute

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