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  Robert Ettinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003 served as their President.
Ettinger was elected President of the Cryonics Society of Michigan (CSM).
In 1970s CSM was transformed under the direction of Ettinger into the Cryonics Institute (CI) and the Immortalist Society (IS).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Ettinger   (1842 words)

  
 Cryonics Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Immortalist Society is a closely associated educational organization that publishes the magazine The Immortalist every two months.
The Immortalist reports on activities of the Cryonics Institute along with other information related to cryonics and life extension.
For most of its history the Cryonics Institute perfused its patients with the (antifreeze) cryoprotectant glycerol, but in the year 2000 a cryobiologist was hired: Yuri Pichugin, Ph.D. who had done research on the Hippocampal Slice Cryopreservation Project (HSCP).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cryonics_Institute   (859 words)

  
 Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Russian philosopher, teacher, and librarian Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov was born June 9, 1829, and died December 28, 1903.
He was founder of an immortalist (anti-death) philosophy emphasizing "the common task" of resurrecting the dead through scientific means.
Thus to see our place in society from the perspective of this position is...
www.iep.utm.edu /f/fedorov.htm   (1414 words)

  
 SCI.CRYONICS "Immortalist" mag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
THE IMMORTALIST is a monthly (about 50 pages) co-published by the Immortalist Society and the American Cryonics Society.
Annual subscription (or associate membership in the Immortalist Society) is $25.
A sample issue, along with information about the Immortalist Society and the Cryonics Institute, will be sent on request at no charge Immortalist Society Cryonics Institute 24443 Roanoke, Oak Park MI 48237 Phone (810) 548-9549 Phone/Fax (810) 547-2316 E-Mail < >.
www.cryonet.org /cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=2870   (107 words)

  
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We understand that the Society's Board of Governors has recently rewritten its bylaws and will now require an extensive curriculum vitae to be submitted documenting an applicant's research credentials in pure or applied cryobiology.
Sources within the Society have informed us that it is the intention of the Board of Governors to quietly pass the new bylaws and then directly take on the matter of cryonics and the relationship the Society for Cryobiology should have with cryonicists.
Membership in the Society for Cryobiology shall be denied ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (9) to organizations or individuals actively endorsing or engaging in the practice of human body freezing.
www.alcor.org /cryonics/cryonics8206.txt   (7280 words)

  
 Immortalism
Success in a Death Society means hoarding up a big "nest egg" for the worst part of life, and stockpiling more than you can possibly spend, so you can pass on a big estate to your children who won‚t even talk to you while you‚re alive.
Although the Immortalist Society will never neglect the old, the sick, or the dying, its health care system will singlemindedly concentrate on lengthening youth, vigor, and wellness into an endless summer, so that we shall not become aged, diseased, and dying in the first place.
A Death Society is generous to a fault when it comes to building state-of-the-art prisons and Scrooge-like when it comes to even the most no-frills housing for its destitute.
www.immortalism.com /5.html   (1453 words)

  
 Immortalist Society and Amazon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Immortalist Society will get a slice of the price, at no cost to you.
The Immortalist Society, besides publishing THE IMMORTALIST, supports research in cryonics and life extension, and the results are available to everyone without cost or obligation.
Robert Ettinger Cryonics Institute Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10755
www.cryonet.org /cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=10755   (192 words)

  
 Immortalism: The Official Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Immortalist Manifesto by Elixxir, founder of the Philosophy and Movement of Immortalism
We Immortalists choose to be the first to stay young and live forever.
We Immortalists and Forever Young Society demand that the conquest of Old Age and Death be the number one priority of every society on the planet.
www.elixxir.com   (360 words)

  
 Re: HUMANISMMMMMZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz......
I assume that human > beings are, to a greater or lessor degree, concerned for each other > and for the society in which they dwell.
Indeed, this is the basis of > all art and most journalism.
We lose hope that our > society can be altered in the way we desire.
www.talkabouthistory.com /group/alt.history/messages/41466.html   (276 words)

  
 Immortalism
society is not pacifist; it has the right to defend itself.
Medicine`s strategy is to focus funding and research on the aging process itself, to understand why you grow old, to figure out how to retard this process, stop it, or even reverse it, no matter how old you are.
It is the official but unspoken ideology of The Death Society.
www.immortalism.com /2.html   (1359 words)

  
 The Cryonics Society: Cryonics Information Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Cryonics Institute's 72nd patient was an 84-year-old mother of two, and was able to receive more helpful treatment, not least because of the efforts of cooperative family members, and also because of the assistance of three CI members in the vicinity.
Robert Ettinger, former President and Vice President of both the Cryonics Institute and the Immortalist Society, and widely celebrated as the founder of the cryonics movement, plans to retire as a CI Director at the coming September gathering.
As a result, protest against the legislation has arisen, claiming it to be an unwarranted interference with Canadian citizens' rights to dispose of their postmortem remains as they wish.
www.cryonicssociety.org /enews/insidecryo_may06.html   (1278 words)

  
 Immortalist - Religion Universe: Taoism, HISTORY OF TAOISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The immortalist; an approach to the engineering of man's divinity.
In order to support the work of the Immortalist Society and to extend the readership of Longevity Report will appear as an insert in The Immortalist,
Some time ago I wrote as follows to an immortalist friend: Tell people in immortalist movements about freedom, coercion, and government.
finderlist.com /fnri/immortalist.htm   (217 words)

  
 LONGEVITY REPORT 58
Following the outgoing Immortalist editor's call for more help with the newsletter, I proposed the merger in which Longevity Report would cease to be offered to non-European readers who instead would be urged to subscribe The Immortalist.
But it absolutely does not tolerate somebody being in the business of encouraging and facilitating that gamble when, remember, the bulk of society thinks that the business has convinced the sucker that there is a chance, when society "knows" there is one.
Immortalists will have to change the world's view of death, one person at a time.
www.geocities.com /longevityrpt/lr58.htm   (10820 words)

  
 ► » Moral Principle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
formally to the established terms of the society they are born into.
society described by its leaders, but their motives are often so
society that you may leave, staying involves some choice on your part.
www.psychology-talk.org /Moral-Principle-814808.html   (4860 words)

  
 Longevity Report 77
Her editing was sometimes necessary, especially in the early editions where my views were as outlandish to the cryonics movement as that movement is to the rest of the world.
The Cryonics Society of Michigan (CSM), started in the mid-1960s, was patterned after the Cryonics Society of New York headed by Curtis Henderson, the first organization to publicly offer cryonic suspension.
CSM eventually developed into Cryonics Institute (CI), which handles actual cryonic suspensions for members worldwide, and the Immortalist Society (IS, formerly Cryonics Association or CA) a sister organization involved in promotional work, including publishing a newsletter.
www.geocities.com /longevityrpt/lr77.htm   (8857 words)

  
 The Case Against Immortality
The late Robert Thouless, former President of the Society for Psychical Research, developed a test of survival where a message is encrypted in such a way that it can only be decoded by key words known only to one who has died (Stevenson 114).
When Thouless died in 1984 roughly one hundred candidates for a key were submitted to the Society for Psychical Research, some of which came from mediums, but none of them were able to decipher any of Thouless' encrypted messages (Stevenson 114).
Beloff is making a fundamental logical error here: Insofar as he concedes that there is strong evidence for the dependence of consciousness on the brain, he is implicitly committed to denying the possibility of survival of bodily death (aside from the scientifically extremely unlikely possibility of a physical resurrection of the body).
www.infidels.org /library/modern/keith_augustine/immortality.html   (10279 words)

  
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Isn't this obtainable?) I have had dealings with CI and their supporting organization, the Immortalist Society, for many years and I believe that, while not perfect, they are sincerely committed to cryonics and do not practice willful deceit.
Recently, the American Cryonics Society ran a lengthy article in their newsletter explaining how liquid nitrogen is used to keep patients cold.
Cryonics groups are mutual-protection societies which hope to heck they won't actually freeze people, but have to live with the sad fact that they often do.
www.alcor.org /cryonics/cryonics9101.txt   (20374 words)

  
 The ImmorTalist Manifesto: Stay Young & Save the World by Richard Elixxir | CRS
Immortalist Manifesto_ is its vision of a society transformed to
Immortalist society we will presumably eat AL unless we have some
The CR Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
www.calorierestriction.org /Books-Elixxir_ImmorTalist_Manifesto   (4087 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The ImmorTalist Manifesto: Stay Young & Save the World: Books: Elixxir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
BUT, he seems to be put off by Elixxir's political conslusions of his thinking, about his urgent call for reconstructing society according to new priorities and his claim that Europe is closer to an Immortalist society than the U.S..
Elixxir is singularly inspiring in his deconstruction of present society and culture and equally inspiring (if less concrete) in reconstructing a future society, built on other foundations.
The ImmorTalist Manifesto by Elixxir is defiantly provocative and unabashedly controversial.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0759653399?v=glance   (3141 words)

  
 Trinity University Sociology & Anthropology Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
She is past-President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association for the Sociology of Religion, as well as officer of two international sociology associations.
Her current research projects focus on alternative healing systems and on popular religion in historical and cross-cultural context.
Tynes is the advisor for Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honors Society, and serves on the Women's Studies Advisory Committee.
www.trinity.edu /departments/soc_anthro/faculty.html   (736 words)

  
 Cryonics FAQ 6: Suspension Arrangements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
American Cryonics Society (ACS) P.O. Box 1509 Cupertino, CA 95015 (408) 734-4111 FAX (408) 973-1046, 24 hr FAX (408) 255-5433 Email: cryonics@netcom.com Supporting membership, including American Cryonics and American Cryonics News $35./yr.
Cryonics Institute (CI) 24355 Sorrentino Court Clinton Township, MI 48035 Phone/Fax (810) 791-5961 Email: cryonics@msn.com or ettinger@aol.com The Immortalist Society, which has the same address and phone number, publishes The Immortalist, monthly, $25./yr.
He was frozen on 12 Jan. 1967 at the age of 73 by the Cryonics Society of California and is now with Alcor.
omicron.felk.cvut.cz /FAQ/articles/a166.html   (1438 words)

  
 Comments from Cornwall
In a society where time destructors were commonplace, individuals would live in their own universes, connecting to the common time-stream only when they needed further input from others, or to present the results of whatever task they were performing.
But nevertheless it is also a free market society and presumably that free market has allowed this system to evolve as the most profitable from the overall point of view.
Of interest to Immortalists is that fact that shareholders of this (and presumably every other American company) are able to send in proposals to be printed in the proxy statement and discussed at annual general meetings.
www.quantium.plus.com /lr/1990.htm   (20038 words)

  
 Cooking Forum Re: Medical Ethics
principles of organizing society so that justice in the society would be
enemy were to assign our place in society.
to avoid the risk of turning out to be on the bottom in the efficient society.
www.cookingboard.com /showthread/t-25901.html   (4855 words)

  
 Mailgate: sci.life-extension: The Cryonic Life Insurance Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
When and if future medical technology allows, our member patients hope to be healed and revived, and awaken to extended life in youthful good health.
The Immortalist Society (originally the Cryonics Society of Michigan, and later the Cryonics Association) was formed in 1967 to promote cryonics, and since 1970 has published The Immortalist magazine.
Then in 1976 a separate organization was formed: the Cryonics Institute, to offer cryostasis services: careful preparation, cooling, and long term patient care in liquid nitrogen.
mailgate.supereva.it /sci/sci.life-extension/msg11763.html   (16739 words)

  
 LONGEVITY REPORT 57
For him, the distant future was so appealing he gave up his world to enjoy it and what he could bring to a society, apparently devoid of knowledge.
According to this line of thinking, each society has a degree of liberty, and each society can be compared to each other in its degree of liberty.
Even when a society has a low degree of liberty, there are always some who live within it who have a great deal of freedom -- those at the top politically.
www.quantium.plus.com /lr/lr57.htm   (12085 words)

  
 Rick Potvin's(~~~~(~~(~(((FUTURENAUT)))~)~~)~~~~)Work-in-Progress(Futurenaut Monthly Back-issues are at the top of this ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Disclaimer: "I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rosegarden".
I haven't been subscribed to The Immortalist and I haven't been witnessing any summary reviews of the issues on Cryonet, so I'll subscribe and try to review the articles here.
This message has been edited by recreation on Dec 14, 2002 6:03 AM Respond to this message
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 ANTI_AGEING.US NewsRoom
In order for cryonics to work, our society has to stay together and produce LN2 at reasonable cost till the singularity or something close to it.
Exactly how long that will take is unknown, but a matter of 1-3 decades will probably bracket it.
CI has been considering dropping the name "Immortalist Society" due to its religious overtones.
anti-ageing.us /NewsRoom/Cryonet_feed.php   (1160 words)

  
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