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[Shannon Vyff]

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American Cryonics Society was heard of a lot in the '80's, but you don't hear of them much now. They are still quite viable, and they are the world's oldest cryonics organization, their members are stored at Cryonics Institute, ACS still provides standby and preservation--here is their site: http://americancryonics.org/


After watching the video I was amazed at how the questions are the same today 21 years later! (sort of the same ones I get in interviews, wow..) (ok also sadly how we have not advanced much in the field--vitrification/better preservating is the biggest difference) The styles were funny-but ours will be 21 years hence

I was sobered to see (anyone know where she is stored now):

http://www.cryonet.o...sp.cgi?msg=3675

Glad to see:

http://www.cryonics.org/patients.html

(Although Marsh thought patients would be revived by 2000 --but many futurists hope that the rest of the world will catch on and move a lot faster) I hope that someday after I'm in preservation some young cryonicist will see my interview, and then smile a bit when they see I'm preserved.

It was fun to hear how well they did on the show (I can't wait to see myself and my children when they air the Barbara Walters piece!), and also some unique issues/styles of the time--I still can't believe I was only 11 when it aired, I wanted to be a cryonicist since I was little, I would have loved to be on the stage--but couldn't at all answer the questions, especially the religious issues like I can today ;-).

I wonder what happened to Dr. Avi Ben Abraham? (wonder if he is still the youngest who attained the status of medical status in the US, he was 18) Here is the wikipedia story about ACS: http://en.wikipedia....ryonics_Society I'd known of him for the cooling and 'clinical death' of the Beagle and that it was featured in the movie Vanilla Sky.

This is an interesting site--pretty amazing photos: http://menzelphoto.p...p;orderdir=desc

Kennita Watson who started http://www.gocryo.org/ (look there is my daughter Avianna! ) and attends the Frozen Dead Guy Festival each year, to pass out info and give surveys--posted the '87 interview to cryonet.

Edited by caliban, 22 February 2008 - 08:22 PM.
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[Mind]

21 years and not much has changed, or has it? The philosophy hasn't changed and the technology is catching up.

[cryoguy]

Avi Ben-Abraham has been astonishingly successful at networking and getting photographed with famous people all his life. His actual achievements have been less notable. His interest in cryonics follows a pattern of opportunistic association with fields likely to generate publicity.

http://www.accessmyl...286-6732896_ITM

http://www.accessmyl...286-6732895_ITM

http://www.cryonet.o...dsp.cgi?msg=727

Also, Ben-Abraham had no involvement in Paul Segall's beagle hypothermia experiment of the late 1980s. The significance of that work was also greatly overhyped at the time

http://www.alcor.org...dPhonyShow.html

Edited by cryoguy, 21 February 2008 - 08:00 AM.

[JediMasterLucia]

http://video.google....600641593229672

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I have posted this video on transhumanist.org

[Shannon Vyff]

Thanks Angelique!

Wow, the Ben-Abraham guy, sounds pretty shady. I assume he is not in the field of cryonics anymore then?

Thanks Cryoguy--this article from 1987, should be required reading in conjunction with viewing the video in this thread--it is very well written, and has interesting things also to say about now:

http://www.alcor.org...dPhonyShow.html

[JediMasterLucia]

I have seen this show.
It was very interesting to see that people openly talked about cryonics and answered the questions of the audience.

I think this is a good way to let the the general public know about cryonics.

http://www.gocryo.org/ (look there is my daughter Avianna! wink.gif )

Hehe, the t-shirt your daughter is wearing is cool

[JediMasterLucia]

I found an another cryonics talkshow: Phil Donahue Cryonics Show (1987)