Larry King's Corpse: Alcor Life Extensions Won't Say Whether Former CNN Host Has Plans to Freeze Dead Body

• The compay that will freeze dry Larry will complete construction of a walk-n Micowave Oven at the end of this month.....Thaw on low for 8 hours until done....

• ok so if you aren't living you are dead. It's as simple as that. It's really not that complicated.

• why the fuck should I feel guilty for existing? I don't feel a think like that at all.

• Do you feel guilty for existing? I certainly don't.

• Cryonicists want to turn death from a permanent off-state into a temporary off-state.

• Take the ones you have to a mechanic

• You are correct. They are not living. But not living doesn't mean dead in any final sense. It means non-functioning. If your car "dies", you don't throw it away, you get the malfunctioning parts replaced.

• I am not saying it will/won't work now or in the future, but I would much rather be returned to the planet to be reused by something else. Fire and Ice. Take your pick.

• well they sure as shit aren't living...

• Skeptics can evaluate cryonics in two ways. A skeptic can say, "Cryonics can't or won't work," given scientific reasons A, B, C, etc. Then he loses interest and goes off to criticize global warming denialists or something. Or a skeptic could say, "Hmm, cryonics can't or won't work if you do it <u>that</u> way." Then if he thinks like an inventive problem solver and knows some biology, he might evaluate the problem by changing some of its assumptions. For example, he might employ a common creative thinking technique where he imagines the end result - revival of a human brain from cryonic suspension with its connectome intact - then works backwards to see what that implies about its starting conditions. The exercise could suggest new ways to perform suspensions. Cryonics in its currently underdeveloped & neglected state provides opportunities for the latter sort of skeptics who want to work hard and accomplish great things. College-aged guys with aspirations of becoming the next Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin or other high-tech super-achievers should give cryonics a look.

• <I>The company came under fire a few years ago when former Alcor executive Larry Johnson wrote a tell-all book about "cryonics," in which he describes how Williams' frozen head was tossed around like a baseball while lab technicians tried to hit it with a monkey wrench.</I> If you would bother to read Johnson's book, as I have, he writes that he witnessed an Alcor employee in his 60's <u>accidentally</u> strike Ted Williams's head with a wrench. Of course, in the same book Johnson claims he heard that Arizona businessman & cryonicist David Pizer runs a cult in central Arizona which kidnaps & murders people. Johnson has some serious issues with his credibility.

• Got Sub-Zero?

• It is not entirely correct to say that Alcor bills itself as "the leader in cryonics (freezing dead bodies)". We are indeed the leader in the field, both in terms of size and level of technology. However, we do not freeze, we vitrify. Freezing results in the formation of ice crystals, which damage cell membranes. We vitrify, which involves no ice crystal formation as we reduce our patients' temperature to minus 196 C. We also do not regard our patients as dead in any final sense. -- Max More, Alcor Foundation president

• Maybe it's the angle but, in the above picture, Larry's head has a strangely Alien shape. Is he a Scientologist?

• He already looks freeze dried to me.....what u talkin bout, Willis?

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