Does Alcor “mishandle remains”?
Alcor is composed of people who sincerely want cryonics for themselves and their families. It would make no sense for us to mistreat patients, because how we treat our patients is how we ourselves want to be treated someday. Moreover, our patients are not “remains,” they are patients! In our view, they are sick people being stabilized using the most advanced technology available. All Alcor procedures are done with solid biomedical justification to support the primary objective of best possible brain preservation. The technical articles and case histories on this web site document the scientific seriousness and attention to medical detail that goes into real Alcor cases. Unscrupulous journalists looking for sensational headlines sometimes target cryonics by focusing on specific procedures, such as neuropreservation, and spinning them into lurid tales of wrongdoing. In one recent example, two small openings routinely made in the cranium for monitoring purposes using standard neurosurgica
