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• - CryoCare Foundation offers cryonics services. The site includes a good explanation of cryonics, with a large library of articles.
  
• - A paper examining the results of a consumer survey on cryonics. By W. Scott Badger, from "The Journal of Evolution and Technology," December, 1998.
  
• - Information for Europeans interested in cryonics. Includes an extensive list of links to other European cryonics sites and a mailing list/forum for Europeans interested in cryonics, plus a large list of articles and discussions. The site and mailing lis
  
• - "Cryonics, Cryptography, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation," a paper by Ralph Merkle, Ph.D.
  
• - A slim, but interesting perspective piece on cryonics by Mark Prado, an American living in Thailand.
  
• - The truth (no, he wasn't) with the legends behind the myth.
  
• - A free discussion mailing list on cryonics-related issues. May also be read on-line; posts accepted from subscribers only. Searchable archives are available from the list's beginning in 1988.
  
• - Free news, updates, and links about the latest scientific, medical, health, anti-aging, and social developments relevant to CI's goal of saving, preserving, and extending human lives.
  
• - For education and to organize cryonics in Canada. Does not provide cryonics services.
  
• - A non-profit organization that aims to educate and inform the general public about cryonics. Does not provide cryonics services and is not affilated with any service organiztion.
  
• - A cryonics service provider in San Leandro, California.
  
• - The DCSG consists primarily of Danish members of the Cryonics Institute (CI) and those interested in becoming members of a suspension organization. The site is in both English and Danish.
  
• - Support and discussion group based in Sussex, UK, for people in Britain and the rest of Europe who are signed up for cryopreservation.
  
• - A far-seeing but technical paper by James J. Hughes, prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death. Date unclear, but 1996 or later. Includes discussion of cryonics and nanotechnology.
  
• - A fascinating medical essay about the history of attempts to revive people who appear dead and the relationship of these ideas to cryonics. By Steven B. Harris, M.D.
  
• - An extensive list of links to cryonics articles and to European sites related to cryonics.
  
• - An on-line discussion group for those who are considering joining a cryonics organization but are worried about what their friends and family might think.
  
• - A series of technical papers on cryopreservation research.
  
• - Home page for documentary film about life extension, cryonics, body decoration, and other aspects of modern technological life.
  
• - Article by Michael Park of the Sunday Herald (U.K.), primarily focused on Alcor.
  
• - Site for Belgian people with an interest in cryonics. Content appears to be totally in Dutch (Nederlands).
  
• - A cryonics public education organization in the Maryland/D.C. area. Not a service provider.
  
• - Cryonic suspension services & information. Much of the text is also available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese by clicking on the appropriate button. This organization was founded by Robert Ettinger, the "father" of cryo
  
• - A non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting "the worldwide conquest of death and the continuation and enhancement of life through technological means, including cryonic suspension." Does not offer cryonics services. In Scottsdale,
  
• - Primarily dealing with technical issues in cryonics.
  
• - The oldest Cryonics membership organization; founded in 1969 as the Bay Area Cryonics Society. In Mountain View CA. Offers background information, articles and theories.
  
• - A new organization in New Zealand.
  
• - The official site of a winter festival held annually in the mountain town of Nederland, Colorado. A bit weird, since the Nederlands city government actively worked to oust Bredo Morstoel (the "frozen dead guy") from their town several years ag
  
• - Wired News article by Michelle Delio, based on an interview with Heather Pringle, author of the new book: "The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead".
  
• - Visionary design and project plans by architect Stephen Valentine for a building to house research into life extension, nanotechnology, and cryopreservation of tissue and humans through vitrification.
  
• - A new discussion forum on cryonics, attempting to focus on science issues. Also some links to basic information.
  
• - A long article by Terry Grossman, reprinted from The Babyboomers Guide to Living Forever (2000).
  
• - Up-to-date answers to basic cryonics questions. A good starting point. By Ben Best.
  
• - From ABCNEWS.com, an article on the cryonic suspension of Ted Williams by the Alcor Foundation and asking if the technology might work.
  
• - An thoughtful article by Thomas Gramstad which examines the social implications of preserving aborted embryos. From Longevity Report.
  
• - Site for major cryonics organization in Scottsdale AZ. Contains a lot of information, including an on-line photo-tour of the building and of the cryonics process.
  
• - John DeRivaz's British site for cryonics, life extension, and the future.
  
• - An Interim site describing the resources of Cryonicists in Australia and listing other related sites.
  
• - Cymbeline Refalda-Villamin, from the Phillipines, writes in favor of cryonics in the Catholic on-line magazine, "Family Life at 48."
  
  

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