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Transhumanism-related blog posts:
In Praise of Life (Let’s Ditch the Cult of Longevity)
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/05/08/in-praise-of-life-lets-ditch-the-cult-of-longevity/
Overcoming Bias: Why Not?
http://futurisms.thenewatlantis.com/2015/05/overcoming-bias-why-not.html
Also noteworthy:
Prepping for cataclysms, neglecting ordinary emergencies
http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2015/05/prepping-for-cataclysms-neglecting.html
Interesting books:
A cryonics novel:
The New World: A Novel Hardcover – May 5, 2015 by Chris Adrian (Author), Eli Horowitz (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/New-World-Novel-Chris-Adrian/dp/0374221812
Futurology, from the looks of it:
Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact Paperback – May 12, 2015 by Steven Kotler (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrowland-Journey-Science-Fiction-Fact/dp/0544456211/
Cryonics news:
Another of cryonics' founding generation goes into cryo, though under really bad circumstances.
Dr. Laurence Pilgeram becomes Alcor’s 135th patient on April 15, 2015
http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrowland-Journey-Science-Fiction-Fact/dp/0544456211/
How the hell are they treating this as a successful preservation? The body spent two days "warm and dead".
Looking at their past case reports, this seems to be fairly normal. Unless you're dying of a known terminal condition and go die in their hospice in Arizona, odds are the only thing getting froze is a mindless, decaying corpse.
Cryonicist Ben Best has put a lot of effort into studying and testing personal alarm gadgets you can wear which signal cardiac arrest to try to reduce the incidence of these unattended deanimations and long delays before cryopreservation. I plan to look into those myself.
Ironically, I've noticed that cryonicists talk a lot about how much they believe in scientific, medical and technological progress, but then they don't seem to want to act on it when you present them with evidence of the correctable deficiencies of real, existing cryonics.
Reference:
Personal Alarm Systems for Cryonicists
http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/alarms.html