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Subject: CryoSpan Patients Moved to the Cryonics Institute
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:44:17 US/Eastern


   Late afternoon on Tuesday, April 6th the Cryonics Institute received ten 
   American
Cryonics

Society patients from CryoSpan, along with some pets. CryoSpan has been 
attempting to 

close-down operations for several years and with this move will finally be able 
to do so.
When

I was Secretary of CryoCare I negotiated the move of the two CryoCare patients 
from
CryoSpan

to Alcor, so I have been very involved in helping CryoSpan to safely ensure the 
long-term
care of all of its patients. CryoSpan can now safely cease operations.


    Twenty-four hours after receiving the CryoSpan patients the Cryonics 
    Institute
received

another patient. In this case the patient was the wife of a man for whom 
cryonics was an

afterthought. His wife was cooled in a hospital after dying of cancer and stored
at 

refrigeration temperature while her husband sought information about cryonics 
services.

After he learned of us, we sent perfusate and the wife was perfused by a funeral
director,


but the perfusion was understandably poor. The wife was then stored on dry ice 
for nearly 
a month while the husband worked to raise the funds.


    The Cryonics Institute does not solicit and emphatically discourages this 
    kind of 

cryonics. We seek to cryopreserve Members who have given forethought to the 
lifesaving 

potentials of cryonics and who arrange for cardiopulmonary support and rapid 
cooldown

soon after legal death has been pronounced. Unfortunately, the association of 
cryonics
with

death rather than with medicine encourages the idea that cryonics arrangements 
are made

after legal death. Nonetheless, I believe that this man's wife has a chance at 
future life

as a result of her cryopreservation which she would not have were she buried or 
cremated.

     With the CryoSpan patients plus the patient just described, the Cryonics 

Institute patient count now stands at 62. John Bull, Editor of THE IMMORTALIST 
magazine,

was present for the loading of the CryoSpan patients in California and for the 
unloading

& transfer to cryostats in Michigan. There will be a detailed description and 
photographs
of this historic move in the next issue of THE IMMORTALIST. 


    THE IMMORTALIST is sent to both Associate and Full Members of the 
    Immortalist

Society. Full Membership is US$75 with postage paid anywhere in the world. 
Associate

Membership is US$25 in the United States and higher rates (for postage) outside 
the

United States (surface or air mail). For more details on Membership -- or to buy
a
Membership online through PayPal -- see the website of The Immortalist Society:

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

                        -- Ben Best, President
                           Cryonics
Institute

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