What is the legal status of Alcor in Arizona ?
In the wake of the Ted Williams affair Arizona representative Bob Stump introduced a bill into the Arizona House of Representatives (HB 2637) which attempted to regulate Alcor under the Funeral and Embalmer’s Board (an organization hostile to Alcor and which would require that only licensed embalmers rather than physicians perform cryonics procedures). HB 2637 also attempted to strip Alcor of its use of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA), which gives Alcor legal possession of cryonics patients and facilitates the ability to access and transport patients in a manner for optimal treatment. HB 2637 was withdrawn, but regulation of Alcor by the State of Arizona is inevitable.
