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"Your Last Best Chance For Life--and Your Family's."

The Cryonics Institute offers cryopreservation services and information. As soon as possible after legal death, a member patient is infused with a substance to prevent ice formation, cooled to a temperature where physical decay essentially stops, and is then maintained indefinitely in cryostasis (ie, stored in liquid nitrogen). When and if future medical technology allows, our member patients hope to  be healed, rejuvenated, revived, and awakened to a greatly extended life in youthful good health, free from disease or the aging process.

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MEMBERSHIP FEES

	MEMBERSHIP	INITIATION	HUMAN CRYOPRESERVATION
LIFETIME	$1,250 once	none	$28,000
YEARLY	$120 per year	$75  once	$35,000
(Human cryopreservation prices do not include "Local Help" cost for a funeral director or shipping, which can range from nothing in Michigan to $3,000 on the US west coast -- and more overseas.)
Membership gives the privilege of making arrangements for human cryopreservation, pet cryopreservation or tissue/DNA cryopreservation
Click Membership page to join the Cryonics Institute
STANDBY AND TRANSPORT FROM SUSPENDED ANIMATION, INC.
Insurance-funded costs for basic SA Standby/Transport plus CI Perfusion/Storage:
	LIFETIME	YEARLY
	$88,000	$95,000
Click Suspended Animation, Inc. for details on costs, terms and procedures

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About Cryonics:

• About Cryonics
  
• Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Scientific Justification for Cryonics Practice
  
• Evidence that Cryonics May Work (Video Lecture)
  
• Why Don't We? (Cryonics Strategy Questions)
  
• Public speakers about cryonics
  
• Cryonics in the media
  
• Prospect of Immortality (the book)
  
• Ben Best's Cryonics: Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Wikipedia entry on Cryonics
  
• Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
  
• What is cryonics? (Depressed Metabolism website)
  
• A History of Cryonics
  
• Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics
  

Emergency / Funeral Director Information:

• Patient Emergency? Click Here.
  

• Hospital Instructions
  
• Washout and Perfusion Instructions
  
• Funeral Directors' Dry Ice Guidelines
  
• Funeral Directors' Guidelines
  

About The Cryonics Institute:

• A Brief History and Overview
  
• Directors of the Cryonics Institute
  
• Officers of the Cryonics Institute
  
• Scientific Advisory Board
  
• Cryonics Institute Facility
  
• Patients
  
• Members and Friends
  
• 2010 Annual General Meeting
  
• Long Life (formerly The Immortalist) magazine
  
• The Structure of the Cryonics Institute
  
• Articles of Incorporation
  
• By-Laws
  
• Financial Statements
  
• Comparing Procedures and Policies
  
• Wikipedia entry on the Cryonics Institute
  

How To Become A Member:

• Becoming A Member FAQ
  
• Membership Application
  
• Making Contracts for Cryopreservation at CI
  
• Establishing Funding for Cryopreservation at CI
  
• Insurance Agents And Investments
• CI Membership for Those Living Outside of the United States
  

Products and Services Available to CI Members:

• Suspended Animation Standby and Transport (optional)
  
• DNA or tissue storage option
  
• Pet Cryopreservation
  
• Emergency Jewelry and Wallet Cards
  
• Shirts, Bumper Stickers, etc. with CI Designs
  

Cryonics Institute Equipment and Operation:

• Cryostats for Cryogenic Storage
  
• Computer-Controlled Cooling Boxes at CI
  
• Sprinkler System
  
• Ventilation System
  
• Outline of CI Cryopreservation Procedures
  
• Perfusion System
  
• Alarm System Investigation
  
• Cryobiological Research

Cryonics Institute Paperwork:

• Lifetime Membership Application
• Yearly Membership Application
• Guide to the Human Cryopreservation Contracts
  
• Cryonic Suspension Agreement
• Uniform Donor Form
• Next of Kin Agreement
• Consent/Release for Cryopreservation
• Cryonic Suspension Agreement Yearly Membership Rider
• Cryonic Suspension Agreement Non-Suspension Rider
• Cryonic Suspension Agreement Local Help Rider
          (for Lifetime Members)
• Cryonic Suspension Agreement Local Help Rider
          (for Yearly Members)
• Foreign Funding Rider for non-U.S. resident
          (for Lifetime Members)
• Foreign Funding Rider for non-U.S. resident
          (for Yearly Members)
• Cryonic Storage Agreement for Member
          (Post-Mortem)
• Cryonic Storage Agreement for Non-Member
          (Post-Mortem)
• Perfusion Preference Statement
          (Optional, for Cryopreservation Members Only)
• Memorabilia Storage Agreement
          (Optional, for Cryopreservation Members Only)
• Certificate of Religious Belief and Religious Objection to Autopsy
• Authorization by Children for Cryonic Preservation of a Parent
  
• Pet Cryonic Storage Agreement
• Tissue Storage Agreement
• Tissue Storage Successor Agreement

Additional Resources:

• The Immortalist Society & magazine (Long Life, formerly The Immortalist)
  
• Funding Human Cryopreservation with the Cryonics Institute
  
• Cryonics For Those Living Outside the United States
  
• Tax Benefits of Charitable Giving to the Immortalist Society
  
• Insurance/Investments
  
• Advanced Directives for Cryonics Institute Members
  
• Avoiding Autopsy for Cryonics
  
• Shipping of Cryonics Patients
  
• Overseas Vitrification of Cryonics Patients
  
• Cryonics Institute Member Location Mapper
  
• High-Resolution Photographs for Journalist Use
  
• What to Read
  
• 17 Things You Can Do
  
• Long Life: the Cryonics Institute free electronic newsletter
  

Works by Robert Ettinger

• The Prospect of Immortality (book)
  
• Man Into Superman (book)
  
• Youniverse (book, new edition)
  
• The Penultimate Trump (short story)
  
• The Principles of Experience (essay)
  
• Cryonics: The Probability of Rescue (essay)
  
• Cryonics Institute: A Brief History and Overview
  
  

Case Reports:

• Toronto Standby
• Vitrification Protocol used on Dog
• The Cryonics Institute's 69th Patient
• The Cryonics Institute's 70th Patient
• The Cryonics Institute's 71st Patient
• The Cryonics Institute's 72nd Patient
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