Membership
Members suspended include Dick Clair, an Emmy Award-winning television sitcom writer and producer, Hall of Fame baseball legend Ted Williams and his son John Henry Williams, and futurist FM-2030. Current members of Alcor include nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler, Internet pioneer Ralph Merkle, engineer Keith Henson and his family, MIT professor Marvin Minsky, aging researcher Aubrey de Grey, mathematician Edward O. Thorp, computer security CEO Kenneth Weiss, casino owner Don Laughlin, inventor Ray Kurzweil, film director Charles Matthau, futurists Max More and Natasha Vita-More, entrepreneurs Saul Kent, Luke Nosek, Magali & Stephan Beauregard and Future Electronics founder Robert Miller. Magazine publisher Althea Flynt was signed up to Alcor, but her body was not able to be preserved after her death, which resulted in an autopsy. One Alcor member died in the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks.
Membership has grown at a rate of about eight percent a year since Alcor's inception, tripling between 1987 and 1990. The oldest patient at Alcor is a 101-year-old woman, and the youngest is an 18-year-old woman. Alcor has had patients from as far as Australia. One in four of its members resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The membership receives Alcor's magazine, Cryonics, published six times a year, but it's also available online for free. Keith Henson wrote a column in Cryonics for a few years.
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