List of people who arranged for cryonics
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This list contains notable people who plan to be or have been cryopreserved after legal death.
Living people who plan to be cryopreserved
- Steve Aoki[1]
- Gregory Benford
- Nick Bostrom[2]
- Anthony Bourbon[3]
- Mike Darwin
- Kim Eric Drexler[4]
- Maria Entraigues-Abramson[5]
- William Faloon
- Robert A. Freitas Jr.[6]
- Patri Friedman[7]
- Ugly Dave Gray[8]
- Aubrey de Grey[2]
- James L. Halperin[9]
- Robin Hanson[10]
- Keith Henson[11]
- Todd Huffman[12]
- Ray Kurzweil[13]
- Keith Lofstrom[14]
- Curtis Lovell II[15]
- Seth MacFarlane[16]
- Max Marty[17]
- Charles Matthau[18]
- Ralph Merkle[19]
- Robert Miller[20]
- Ole Martin Moen[21]
- Max More[22]
- Luke Nosek[23]
- David Pearce[24]
- Allan Pease[25]
- Christine Peterson[26]
- Martine Rothblatt[27]
- Anders Sandberg[28]
- Carol Shaw[29]
- Peter Thiel[2]
- Edward O. Thorp[30]
- Natasha Vita-More[31]
- Anthony Waller[32]
- Eliezer Yudkowsky[33]
Deceased people who have been cryopreserved
- James Bedford, 1967[34]
- Dora Kent, 1987[35]
- Dick Clair, 1988[36][37]
- Bredo Morstøl, 1989
- Jerry Leaf, 1991[38]
- Phil Salin, 1991[39]
- FM-2030, 2000[2]
- Frank Cole, 2000[40]
- Ted Williams, 2002[41]
- John Henry Williams, 2004[41]
- Gregory Yob, 2005[42]
- Thomas K. Donaldson, 2006[43]
- Curtis Henderson, 2009[44]
- Robert Ettinger, 2011[45]
- Frederick Chamberlain, 2012[46]
- Hal Finney, 2014[47]
- L. Stephen Coles, 2014[48]
- Marvin Minsky, 2016[49]
- Li Zehou, 2021[50]
- Peter Eckersley, 2022[51]
- Saul Kent, 2023[52]
- Don Laughlin, 2023[53]
References
- ↑ (in en) A DJ's Crazy Schedule, Cryonics, and the Making of Pursuit of Happiness, December 8, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVfQhXhRKLg, retrieved December 10, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "The Eternal Promise". The Verge. 2015. https://www.theverge.com/a/transhumanism-2015/cryogenics-human-research.
- ↑ Bird, Chloe (2025-09-25). "Frozen In France: A Continental Take On Cryogenic Immortality" (in en-US). https://worldcrunch.com/tech-science/frozen-in-france-a-continental-take-on-cryogenic-immortality/.
- ↑ Miller, James D. (2012-10-16) (in en). Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World. BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1-936661-65-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=4EAw-tcmhsMC&q=peter+thiel+cryonics&pg=PA214.
- ↑ Weaver, Courtney. "Inside the weird world of cryonics". https://www.ft.com/content/d634e198-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.
- ↑ "Alcor Member Profile: Robert A. Freitas Jr.". https://www.alcor.org/alcor-member-profile-robert-a-freitas-jr/.
- ↑ Wolf, Aschwin de (2011-08-05). "ApoE4 – The Ancestral Allele" (in en-US). https://www.biostasis.com/apoe4-the-ancestral-allele/.
- ↑ "Hossli.com » Frozen in Time". https://www.hossli.com/articles/2006/09/16/frozen-in-time/.
- ↑ "Criónica, la gélida esperanza de una vida más larga". https://app.relatto.com/cronica/crionica-la-gelida-esperanza-de-una-vida-mas-larga.
- ↑ Howley, Kerry (7 July 2010). "Until Cryonics Do Us Part". The New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11cryonics-t.html.
- ↑ Regis, Ed (1991). Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition : science slightly over the edge. Internet Archive. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.. ISBN 978-0-201-56751-9. http://archive.org/details/greatmambochicke00regi.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine". July 2012. https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2012-04.pdf#page=18.
- ↑ Philipkoski, Kristen (2002-11-18). "Ray Kurzweil's Plan: Never Die". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2002/11/ray-kurzweils-plan-never-die/.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine". November 2012. https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2012-06.pdf#page=14.
- ↑ Todd. "Magician Curtis Eugene Lovell II to be frozen for one hundred years". http://www.mmdnewswire.com/mgicin-curtis-eugene-lovell-ii-to-be-frozen-for-e-hundred-yers-1300-2.html.
- ↑ "Seth MacFarlane On Cryonics". Ora TV. 2012-07-12. https://www.ora.tv/embed/0_3mor3r0p.
- ↑ "Tomorrow Bio 4.0". https://www.tomorrow.bio/post/max-marty-daniel-walters-cryonics-community.
- ↑ Maxwell, Erin (2025-10-21). "Why 'The Odd Couple' Star Walter Matthau Turned Down Cryogenic Freezing" (in en-US). https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/36403/walter-matthau-charlie-matthau-cryogenic-freezing/.
- ↑ Merkle, Ralph. "Cryonics". http://www.merkle.com/cryo/.
- ↑ Jennifer Alsever, Brett Krasnove, Brett Krasnove. "5 billionaires who want to live forever" (in en). Fortune. https://fortune.com/2013/04/04/5-billionaires-who-want-to-live-forever/.
- ↑ "Drømmen om et evig liv" (in no). 2016-06-08. https://p3.no/drommen-om-et-evig-liv/.
- ↑ Goodwin, John (28 November 2021). "Cryonics: Putting your future plans for life on ice". CBS Sunday Morning (CBS News). https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cryonics-putting-your-future-plans-for-life-on-ice/.
- ↑ Schiller, Caitlin (2014-09-17). "What PayPal's Cofounder Can Teach Us About Embracing Weirdness" (in en). https://www.fastcompany.com/3035816/what-paypals-cofounder-can-teach-us-about-embracing-weirdness/.
- ↑ Pearce, David. "Quora Answers 2015 - 2022 by David Pearce". https://www.hedweb.com/quora/2015.html#cryonics.
- ↑ "The love story driving Aussie's decision to freeze himself after death" (in en). 2023-08-07. https://7news.com.au/technology/science/queensland-couple-hope-to-be-among-those-cryogenically-frozen-at-australia-first-facility-c-11511056.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine". November 2017. https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2017-06.pdf#page=16.
- ↑ "Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality". May 18, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTJpJlVkRTA.
- ↑ "V&A · Project focus | Cryonics: who wants to live forever?" (in en). https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/project-focus-cryonics-who-wants-to-live-forever.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine". January 2022. https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2022-01.pdf#page=28.
- ↑ Antonio Regalado (January 21, 2006). "A Cold Calculus Leads Cryonauts To Put Assets on Ice With Bodies Frozen, They Hope to Return Richer; Dr. Thorp Is Buying Long". The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113780314900652582.
- ↑ Alexander, Brian. "Don't Die, Stay Pretty.". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2000/01/forever/. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine". Summer 2006. https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2006-03.pdf#page=10.
- ↑ Yudkowsky, Eliezer (December 12, 2008). You Only Live Twice. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yKXKcyoBzWtECzXrE/you-only-live-twice. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ↑ Darwin, Mike (August 1991). "Leukemia claims son of Hall of Famer". Alcor Life Extension Foundation. https://www.alcor.org/library/bedford-condition/.
- ↑ Perry, Michael. "OUR FINEST HOURS: Notes On the Dora Kent Crisis". https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/library/dora-kent-case/.
- ↑ Darwin, Mike (January 1989). "Dick Jones Enters Biostasis". Alcor Life Extension Foundation. https://www.alcor.org/library/complete-list-of-alcor-cryopreservations/case-report-a-1036/.
- ↑ Appel, Ted (December 12, 1988). "Body Frozen at a Cryonics Laboratory...". Prevention News Update. United Press International. http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1988/AD880345.html.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine" (TXT). September 1991. https://cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-1991-09.txt.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine". October 1998. https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-1998-04.pdf.
- ↑ McSorley, Tom (November 1, 2008). "What Remains" (in en-US). https://povmagazine.com/what-remains/.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 "L. Stephen Coles dies at 73; studied extreme aging in humans". ESPN. March 7, 2004. https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=1753358.
- ↑ "Remembering Hara Ra". https://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=29879.
- ↑ "Case Report A-1097" (in en-US). https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/library/complete-list-of-alcor-cryopreservations/case-report-a-1097/.
- ↑ "Patient Details" (in en-US). https://cryonics.org/patient-details/.
- ↑ Ettinger, David (July 24, 2011), The Cryonics Institute's 106th patient is Robert Ettinger, http://www.cryonics.org/case-reports/the-cryonics-institutes-103rd-patient-1, retrieved June 25, 2014, "Robert Ettinger deanimated today at around 4 p.m. Eastern Time."
- ↑ alcor (March 23, 2012). "Alcor Co-Founder Fred Chamberlain is Cryopreserved" (in en-US). http://www.alcor.org/resources/blog/alcor-co-founder-fred-chamberlain-is-cryopreserved/.
- ↑ Popper, Nathaniel, "Hal Finney, Cryptographer and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies at 58" , The New York Times, August 30, 2014
- ↑ Chawkins, Steve (December 4, 2014). "Evaluation of the Condition of Dr. James H. Bedford After 24 Years of Cryonic Suspension". Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-stephen-coles-20141205-story.html.
- ↑ "Marvin Minsky" (in en). September 5, 2022. https://cryonics.miraheze.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky.
- ↑ "Leading Chinese Philosopher's Brain Cryopreserved in the US". February 7, 2024. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1014626.
- ↑ Hagerty, James R.; McMillan, Robert (September 9, 2022). "Peter Eckersley Helped Encrypt Internet Traffic to Foil Snoops" (in en-US). The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-eckersley-helped-encrypt-internet-traffic-to-foil-snoops-11662732014.
- ↑ "Saul Kent" (in en). August 23, 2025. https://cryonics.miraheze.org/wiki/Saul_Kent.
- ↑ "Complete List of Non-Confidential Cryopreserved Alcor Patients". https://www.alcor.org/complete-list-of-non-confidential-cryopreserved-alcor-patients/.
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