X-Message-Number: 552.1
From: Kevin Q. Brown
Subject: Cryonics Organization List (V3.0)
Date: 26 Nov 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
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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.
[ Nov. 25, 1991 - The relationship of Alcor and Cryovita may change,
due to Jerry Leaf's recent suspension. ]
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) 255-5433
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).
[ Nov. 25, 1991 - The relationship of Alcor and Cryovita may change,
due to Jerry Leaf's recent suspension. ]
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's recording secretary Russell Whitaker
(CompuServe 71750,2413) publishes "British Cryonics News", which performs
the function of keeping the local membership informed.
Alcor UK
Unit 18
Potts Marsh Estate, Eastbourne Road
Westham, East Sussex
England
Voice: 0323-460257
FAX: 03212-6050
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.
Abiolysist Macroscope, the newsletter of the American Mensa, Ltd.
Abiolysig Special Interest Group. (This newsletter may soon get the new
name "Abolish Mortality!")
Update (Nov. 21, 1991): The new editor is Russell Whitaker,
16 Circus Road, MM Box 8593, London NW1 6PG
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. (This mailing list also gets called "cryonet".)
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Kevin Q. Brown
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Extropy, published by 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 90007-0243
(213) 746-5571
Email:
Published twice a year, $4./issue USA, payable to "Max More"
($4.50/issue Canada, $6./issue overseas)
Extropian mailing list. Messages on the list concern the topics of interest
to extropians (see above). The new moderator (as of Nov. 25, 1991) is
Dave Krieger at "dkrieger%". Important: Put "EXTROPIANS"
or "EXTROPIANS-REQUEST" in your Subject line for email to him concerning
the Extropians mailing list.
Hopefully, by early December, 1991 the mailing list will go back to its old
address:
for postings and:
to subscribe/unsubscribe to/from the mailing list.
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
To subscribe to Longevity Report, send US$23 payable to "J. de Rivaz" to:
Longevity Books
West Towan House
Porthtowan, Truro
Cornwall, United Kingdom TR4 8AX
Joe Dumanov's BBS has an active cryonics conference including several
bulletins of useful cryonics-related reference information and (most of)
the archive of messages from the cryonics mailing list. 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
(201) 729-9538 9600 baud
(201) 726-0038 1200/2400 baud
"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.
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)
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