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Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Founded1972 (1972)
FounderFred & Linda Chamberlain
Type501(c)(3)[1]
23-7154039
Registration no.F-0715896-5
FocusCryonics
Location
Coordinates33°37′2.52″N 111°54′39.36″W / 33.6173667°N 111.9109333°W / 33.6173667; -111.9109333
Area served
Global
MethodApplication and further development of cryonics. Education of the public about cryonics.
Key people
Patrick Harris
(President & CEO)
Revenue
Membership fees and donations; The Alcor Patient Care Trust
Employees
8
Websitealcor.org
Formerly called
Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia

The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is an American nonprofit, federally tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Alcor advocates for, researches, and performs cryonics, the freezing of human corpses and brains in liquid nitrogen after legal death, with hopes of resurrecting and restoring them to full health if the technology to do so becomes available in the future.[2] Cryonics is regarded with skepticism within the scientific community and has been characterized as quackery and pseudoscience.[3][4]

As of October 31, 2023, Alcor had 1,927 members, including 222 who have died and whose corpses have been subject to cryonic processes;[5][6][7] 116 bodies had only their head preserved.[8] Alcor also applies its cryonic process to the bodies of pets. As of February 13, 2009, there were 33 animal bodies preserved.[9]

  1. ^ RAPID: Readiness And Procedure Innovation Deployment - Alcor
  2. ^ Devlin, Hannah (18 November 2016). "The cryonics dilemma: will deep-frozen bodies be fit for new life?". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. ^ Butler K (1992). A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative" Medicine. Prometheus Books. p. 173. ISBN 0-8797-5733-7.
  4. ^ Steinbeck RL (29 September 2002). "Mainstream science is frosty over keeping the dead on ice". Chicago Tribune.
  5. ^ "Alcor Membership Statistics". Alcor. 31 October 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  6. ^ More, Max (2019). Alcor 2029: A Speculative Scenario.
  7. ^ Quigley, Christine (1998). Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century. McFarland. p. 143. ISBN 0-7864-0492-2.
  8. ^ "Alcor Cases". Alcor. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  9. ^ Grossman, Wendy M. (2008-02-14). "Cryonics research, patients who are frozen in time". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-06.

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