Behind the Curtain at Alcor

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This article in the Tuscon Citizen is an interesting glimpse behind the curtain at Alcor. There are some more snippets of information on the reasons behind recent departures and a little insight into the financial workings of this non-profit. Cryonics is very much a niche service at the moment. As I have said before, I hope that this current media attention leads to a more professional, growing cryonics industry. That in turn will help turn public attention to issues of healthy life extension funding and research.

Link: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=091503d5_alcor_rep