Category Archives: Cryonics History

In Thy Orisons Be All My Sins Remembered*

By Daichi Sasaki EDITOR’S NOTE: The following text has been edited from a machine translation. I have tried to be as faithful to the original as possible. The title is mine – MD I came to visit the United States, … Continue reading

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Myth and Memory in Cryonics

By Mike Darwin Steven B. Harris, M.D. In September of 1988, Steve Harris, M.D., published an essay entitled The Day the Earth Stood Still: Cryonics and the Resurrection of the Mythic Hero. It was one of his best in a … Continue reading

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Freezing People Is Easy

Clockwise: Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, Kirsten Wiig, Christopher Walken, with Errol Morris in the center. By Mike Darwin Sometime in the next few months, it seems likely that Director Errol Morris’ take on Bob Nelson’s account of the cryopreservation of … Continue reading

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Dr. Crippen on Mr. Darwin*

By introduction, I am Dave Crippen, MD, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Neurological Surgery at the UPMC Medical Center in Pittsburgh. Some of you may know me. I’m the moderator for 18 years duration of CCM-L, the International Critical … Continue reading

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Cryonics: An Historical Failure Analysis, Lecture 2: Inherent Failure Mechanisms and Risks, Part 3

THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE SLIDE 137 Alcor had achieved an exponential rate of membership growth by the time Jerry Leaf was cryopreserved. Since that time, there has been only modest growth of membership and in fact, in the years since … Continue reading

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Cryonics: An Historical Failure Analysis, Lecture 2: Inherent Failure Mechanisms and Risks, Part 2

By Mike Darwin CRYONICS’ THIRD ERA: 1981-1991 EVIDENCE-BASED, MEDICALLY- MODELED, RESEARCH- DRIVEN SLIDE 119 In January of 1980 I had the good fortune to perform two human cryopreservations back-to-back with Jerry Leaf (then associated with Trans Time) in Southern California. … Continue reading

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Cryonics: An Historical Failure Analysis, Lecture 2: Inherent Failure Mechanisms and Risks, Part 1

By Mike Darwin 1972-1991 AWAKENING TO REALITY SLIDE 96 As I said in the previous lecture, the literature produced by CSNY created an impression of competence and of the presence of a solid organization. After I had been involved in … Continue reading

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Specimen Standards for Evidence-Based Human Cryopreservation Organizations, Part 1

By Mike Darwin  A Brief History of Attempts to Create and Implement Minimum Standards in Cryonics INTRODUCTION First Era 1964-1972 The first attempt to create formal minimum standards for cryonics organizations in the form of the Cryonics Societies of America … Continue reading

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Cryonics: Failure Analysis, Lecture 1, Initialization Failure, Part 3

By Mike Darwin FRAUDS & FAKIRS SLIDE 57 While this small corps of serious and honest people was hard at work trying to re-launch cryonics on a solid footing, the legacy of the first era of careless and irresponsible cryonics … Continue reading

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Cryonics: Failure Analysis: Lecture 1: Initialization Failure, Part 2

By Mike Darwin FAILURE OF HUSBANDRY SLIDE 34 The core ideas of cryonics, that death is a function of remaining biological structure (information), technological sophistication, and that deep cooling can arrest decay and preserve structure indefinitely to await resurrection by … Continue reading

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