Recent advances, just in the past few years have apparently given stem
cells, along with other dna manipulation, the potential more than ever
to make new organs and so forth. (how's that for a run on sentence?)
Things like this would hopefully make freezing corpses and body parts
obsolete. This present arrangement seems exceedingly gruesome. Is there a licensing, or accreditation organization that oversees
companies that provide these services? By the way, new stem cells can
be harvested from bone marrow supposedly, making the old stem cell
arguments mostly obsolete.
my name doen't appear in the comment tag, it is "fatbaldguy".
I don't know much about this issue but the whole things smells kinda fishy (no pun intended). I looked at the link that someone left for this company - they pretty darn solid if you ask me, certainly more so than this Larry guy. My questions is, if this Alcor company / non-profit is so disreputable, how are they able to attract such big players? Some of the greatest minds on our planet right now in physics, nanotech, computers, AI etc are card carrying members who will hit the freezer when their time comes. I?m not as smart as these people, but if they can think outside the box, maybe I should too? I have no desire to die and while it may take a great leap of faith to think you can come back in the future, the alternatives are pretty bleak don?t ya think? Thumbs down for Larry who I suspect is just another ambulance chaser.
This guy Johnson is just a disgruntled former employee of Alcor trying to make a buck off the relatively easy target of Cryonics that's poorly understood by the masses. His book is full of half-truths and lies. By publishing it, he's broken a court order that was issued against him previously for lies he was spreading about Alcor a couple of years ago. In the past, the guy had a pay-per-view website where he'd charge people to see photos that he stole from Alcor of Ted Williams' frozen head. The guy's a loser and a liar.
In half a century of life I have learned to be sceptical and this just sounded too bizzare to be true. Some of it doesn't make sense. For example, even I know that people are stored in liquid nitrogen in cryonic facilites - not deep freezers. So I did a bit of digging. Look up http://www.alcor.org/press/response.html for another slat of the story
If a frozen head, or a frozen anything, were stuck to a tuna can and you wanted to separate them, surely to goodness you wouldn't try to do it with a wrench. Even if the wrench didn't miss, the impact might cause fractures in the head. I think what you would do is gradually warm the can, maybe by pouring water over the other side of it. I'm sure the people at Alcor would know that.
Ironic that this guy calls himself a whistleblower, when, in fact, he was the COO and in charge of it all. Instead of guiding employees and disciplining them, he does nothing except encourage bad behaviour, then make covert tapes, steal documents and use it all to make himself rich.
Also, some of the activities mentioned in his book are standard procedure for any medical facility, and are done routinely anywhere in the world where western medicine is practiced.
That's just utter nonsense. If someone gets death threats, they don't write a book about it; they take those notes to the police. He's just out to sell a book and make a quick buck.
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http://www.alcornews.org/weblog/2009/10/alcor_life_extension_foundatio.html
cells, along with other dna manipulation, the potential more than ever
to make new organs and so forth. (how's that for a run on sentence?)
Things like this would hopefully make freezing corpses and body parts
obsolete. This present arrangement seems exceedingly gruesome. Is there a licensing, or accreditation organization that oversees
companies that provide these services? By the way, new stem cells can
be harvested from bone marrow supposedly, making the old stem cell
arguments mostly obsolete.
my name doen't appear in the comment tag, it is "fatbaldguy".
Also, some of the activities mentioned in his book are standard procedure for any medical facility, and are done routinely anywhere in the world where western medicine is practiced.
His only intention is to make money selling lies and defaming the new science of cryonics.
Looks like just an disgruntled employee taking on his boss.