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.
- 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
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- ↑ "Alcor Member Profile: Robert A. Freitas Jr". alcor.org. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ↑ Wolf, Aschwin de (August 5, 2011). "ApoE4 – The Ancestral Allele". Biostasis. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Hossli.com » Frozen in Time". www.hossli.com. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
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- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine" (PDF). July 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 15, 2023.
- ↑ Philipkoski, Kristen (November 18, 2002). "Ray Kurzweil's Plan: Never Die". Wired. Archived from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
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- ↑ Todd. "Magician Curtis Eugene Lovell II to be frozen for one hundred years". www.mmdnewswire.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Seth MacFarlane On Cryonics". Ora TV. July 12, 2012. Archived from the original on January 23, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
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- ↑ Pearce, David. "Quora Answers 2015 - 2022 by David Pearce". The Hedonistic Imperative. Archived from the original on January 16, 2022.
- ↑ "The love story driving Aussie's decision to freeze himself after death". 7NEWS. August 7, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine" (PDF). November 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 11, 2023.
- ↑ "Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality". YouTube. May 18, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
- ↑ "V&A · Project focus | Cryonics: who wants to live forever?". Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived from the original on December 6, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine" (PDF). January 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 11, 2023.
- ↑ 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. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
- ↑ Alexander, Brian. "Don't Die, Stay Pretty". Wired. Archived from the original on December 15, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine" (PDF). Summer 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 11, 2023.
- ↑ Yudkowsky, Eliezer (December 12, 2008). "You Only Live Twice". LessWrong. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
- ↑ Darwin, Mike (August 1991). "Leukemia claims son of Hall of Famer". Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Archived from the original on February 4, 2023. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ↑ Perry, Michael. "OUR FINEST HOURS: Notes On the Dora Kent Crisis". Retrieved September 11, 2023.
- ↑ Darwin, Mike (January 1989). "Dick Jones Enters Biostasis". Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ↑ Appel, Ted (December 12, 1988). "Body Frozen at a Cryonics Laboratory..." Prevention News Update. United Press International. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine". September 1991. Archived from the original (TXT) on May 31, 2023.
- ↑ "Cryonics Magazine" (PDF). October 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 11, 2023.
- ↑ McSorley, Tom (November 1, 2008). "What Remains". POV Magazine. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- 1 2 "L. Stephen Coles dies at 73; studied extreme aging in humans". ESPN. March 7, 2004. Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
- ↑ "Remembering Hara Ra". www.cryonet.org. Retrieved December 25, 2025.
- ↑ "Case Report A-1097". Cryonics Archive. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ↑ "Patient Details". The Cryonics Institute. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ↑ Ettinger, David (July 24, 2011), The Cryonics Institute's 106th patient is Robert Ettinger, archived from the original on August 15, 2022, 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". Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ↑ Popper, Nathaniel, "Hal Finney, Cryptographer and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies at 58" Archived September 15, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, 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. Archived from the original on December 27, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ↑ "Marvin Minsky". Cryonics Wiki. September 5, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ↑ "Leading Chinese Philosopher's Brain Cryopreserved in the US". Sixth Tone. February 7, 2024. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ↑ Hagerty, James R.; McMillan, Robert (September 9, 2022). "Peter Eckersley Helped Encrypt Internet Traffic to Foil Snoops". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ↑ "Saul Kent". Cryonics Wiki. August 23, 2025. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ↑ "Complete List of Non-Confidential Cryopreserved Alcor Patients". Retrieved October 29, 2023.
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