Alcor Life Extension Foundation

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.

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Scottsdale, Arizona - Nonprofit - Cryonics

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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 beginning of 2005, Alcor had 710 members who had completed their financial and legal arrangements for cryopreservation, and 67 patients in cryonic suspension.

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1972 - 1976 - Cryopreservation - 1977 - 1994 - 2005 - Cryonic suspension

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Alcor accepts anatomical donations under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and Arizona Anatomical Gift Act for research purposes.

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Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Arizona Anatomical Gift Act

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