“We’re just taking over when today’s medicine gives up on a patient. “We see it as an extension of emergency medicine,” More says. Cryonics is a way to bridge the gap between today’s medicine and tomorrow’s. Those who die today could be cured tomorrow. The general premise is simple: medicine is continually getting better. “I want to keep living and enjoying and producing.”Ĭryopreservation is a darling of the futurist community. “I figure the future is a pretty decent place to be, so I want to be there,” he says. More himself has been a member since 1986, and has decided to opt for neuropreservation – just deep freezing the brain – over whole body preservation. More is now the President and Chief Executive officer of Alcor, one of the world’s largest cryonics companies. “They were getting Cryonics magazine,” he says, “and they asked me about it to see how futuristic I was. He didn’t think much about it until years later, when he started hanging out with friends who held meetings about futurism. In 1972 Max More saw a children’s science fiction television show called Time Slip that featured characters being frozen in ice.
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