Редактирование: Cryonics organisations (раздел)

== Alcor ==

The '''Alcor Life Extension Foundation''' is a Scottsdale, Arizona based nonprofit cryonics company. Incorporated in 1972 as the 'Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia' by [[Fred and Linda Chamberlain]], Alcor is currently the largest cryonics company in the world.

Alcor's first cryopreservation took place in 1976 on A-1001, [[#Fred Chamberlain II|Fred Chamberlain's father]]. Initially, provided long term storage until 1982.

* [http://alcor.org/ Alcor Website]
* [http://alcor.org/procedures.html Procedures]
* [http://alcor.org/cryomyths.html Cryonics Myths]
* [http://alcor.org/FAQs/index.html FAQ]
* [http://alcor.org/sciencefaq.htm Scientist's FAQ]
* [http://alcor.org/cases.html Index of Cases] (See [[#Patients|Patients]])
* [http://alcor.org/CryonicsMagazine/index.html Cryonics Magazine Archives]

=== Alcor Criticism ===

<blockquote>[...] Saul Kent invited me over to his home in Woodcrest, California to view videotapes of two Alcor cases which troubled him – but he couldn’t quite put his finger on why this was so.[...] Patients were being stabilized at a nearby hospice, transported to Alcor (~20 min away) and then CPS was discontinued, the patients were placed on the OR table and, without any ice on their heads, they were allowed to sit there at temperatures a little below normal body temperature for 1 to 1.5 hours, while burr holes were drilled, [...] smoke could be seen coming from the burr wound! Since the patient had no circulation to provide blood to carry away the enormous heat generated by the action of the burr on the bone, the temperature of the underlying bone (and brain) must have been high enough to literally cook an egg.
In one case, a patient’s head was removed in the field and, because they had failed to use a rectal plug, the patient had defecated in the PIB. The result was that feces had contaminated the neck wound, and Alcor personnel were seen pouring saline over the stump of the neck whilst holding the patient’s severed head over a bucket trying to wash the fecal matter off the stump. These are just a few of the grotesque problems I observed.[...] - [[Mike Darwin]]