AzBusiness on Alcor

You'll find a respectful article on the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in the latest AzBusiness: "Clearly the freezer is more attractive than the grave, even if one has doubts about the future capabilities of science. With bad luck, the frozen people will simply remain dead, as they would have in the grave. But with good luck, the manifest destiny of science will be realized, and the resuscitees will drink the wine of centuries unborn. The likely prize is so enormous that even slender odds would be worth embracing ... Alcor's challenge is two-fold, with both a reversal of the vitrification process and cures for the diseases suffered by its patients necessary for reanimation to occur. ... there's damage below minus 130 with the vitrification. That damage will still need to be reversed. [There will be] gross fractures that will have to be repaired, and it's probable that molecular nanotechnology and medical nanotechnology will be required to fix people. We also need the cures ... Eventually I believe cryonics is going to be perceived as a common medical practice, maybe not by 2028 but possibly not too far after that. It will be used in cases where if a sudden virus comes up that is killing people, then you're put into a preserved state until a cure is found. This will be an alternative, but that will only occur once this is reversible. There really isn't a realistic timetable yet because we are relying on nanotechnology to develop - we're probably looking at 50 years."

Link: http://azbusinessmagazine.com/azb/2007/ABAS07/ABAS07_1.html

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