Alcor Life Extension Foundation
| Founded | 1972 |
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| Founder | Fred & Linda Chamberlain |
| 23-7154039 | |
| Registration no. | F-0715896-5 |
| Focus | Cryonics |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 33°37′2.52″N 111°54′39.36″W / 33.6173667°N 111.9109333°W |
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Area served
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Global |
| Method | Application and further development of cryonics. Education of the public about cryonics. |
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Members
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1,618 (including 354 associate members and 149 patients) (January 31, 2017) |
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Key people
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President & CEO Max More |
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Revenue
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Membership fees and donations; The Alcor Patient Care Trust |
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Employees
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8 |
| Website | alcor |
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Formerly called
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Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia |
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is a Scottsdale, Arizona, USA-based nonprofit organization that researches, advocates for and performs cryonics, the preservation of human corpses in liquid nitrogen after legal death, with hopes of restoring them to full health when hypothetical new technology is developed in the future.
As of January 31, 2017[update], Alcor had more than 1,618 members, including 354 associate members and 149 in cryopreservation, as whole bodies or brains. Alcor also cryopreserves pets. As of November 15, 2007[update], there were 33 animals preserved.
Alcor accepts bodies in the guise of "anatomical donations" under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and Arizona Anatomical Gift Act for research purposes, reinforced by a court finding (Alcor, Merkle & Henson v. Mitchell) in its favor that affirmed a constitutional right to donate one's body for research into cryopreservation.
The organization was established as a nonprofit organization by Fred and Linda Chamberlain in California in 1972 as the Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia (ALCOR). Alcor was named after a faint star in the Big Dipper. The name was changed to Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 1977. The organization was conceived as a rational, technology-oriented cryonics organization that would be managed on a fiscally conservative basis. Alcor advertised in direct mailings and offered seminars in order to attract members and bring attention to the cryonics movement. The first of these seminars attracted 30 people.
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