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Alcor Life Extension Foundation - Definition |
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 This "bigfoot" Dewar is custom-designed to contain four wholebody patients and six neuropatients immersed in liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees Celsius. The Dewar is an insulated container which consumes no electric power. Liquid nitrogen is added periodically to replace the small amount that evaporates. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based nonprofit company that researches, advocates for and performs cryonics, the preservation of people after legal death in liquid nitrogen, with hopes of restoring them to full health when new technology is developed in the future.
Alcor was founded as the Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia in 1972 by Fred and Linda Chamberlain. In 1976 Alcor performed its first human cryopreservation. The name was changed to Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 1977. It moved to Arizona in 1994. At the end of 2003, Alcor had 661 members who had completed their financial and legal arrangements for cryopreservation, and 59 patients in cryonic suspension.
Alcor accepts anatomical donations under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and Arizona Anatomical Gift Act for research purposes.
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