The remembrance of the resurrectables (2015) (1)

The Church of Perpetual Life, A Science Based Supplemental Church

December 17, 2015

Welcome to

The Remembrance of the Resurrectables service

at The Church of Perpetual Life.

Tonight we remember and honor our family of all cryonics patients and

others who have passed. The cryonics patients had the foresight to sign

up for crypreservation so that one day in the future they might be

resurrected and come back to life. Many of the cryonics patients name’s

are still private at this time.

In Perpetual Peace, Prosperity, Health & Longevity

Neal VanDeRee, Officiator

The Remembrance of the Resurrectables


New Patients This Year

or Not Previously

Listed



Nikolaj Aspidov

2012


James J. Baglivo

Back in the early 1990s, science fiction writer Charles Platt persuaded Omni

Magazine to sponsor an “Immortality Contest,” the winner of which would receive

a cryopreservation from Alcor free of charge. The winner, Jim Baglivo, was a man

in his early twenties who had recently been severely injured in an auto accident

and didn’t expect to live long. In is winning essay he said, “…I look forward to the

future. … I will bring with me hope; hope for my future and hope for all the world.

I will also bring love and understanding, the two most important things I can

bring.” Jim may have lived longer than he thought he would but time finally

caught up with him and he became Alcor’s 140th patient in August 2015.


Deborah Lynn Cheek

Deborah was born in Logan, West Virginia, on 6-9-

1953. She was raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is

the mother of Shannon Blevins.


Nadezhda Gusejnova

2013


Jane Haiko

2013


“Cupcake”

Cupcake is a Shi-Tzu born in the early Spring of 2000,

beloved pet of Matthew Deutsch. She lived a comfortable

life until the onset of congestive heart failure at the age of

13. At 14, she was admitted to Oregon Cryonics, where she

was euthanized and very adequately vitrified with a

generously donated supply of M22 on May 6th, 2014.

“I wuv my little fluffle-snuff and I still miss her.”


Du HongDu is a neurocryopreservation member and was Alcor’s first patient from China. Du

Hong was born in Chongqing, China and became well-known as a writer of books for

children and as an editor of science fiction. One of the books she edited was a

science fiction trilogy, The Three-Body Problem, which was themed around

cryonics. While undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer she discovered cryonics

and realized that it was a real-world option.


KrioRus Private Patients, First Name Only

Alfred 2003

Anton 2010

Antonio 2013

Elena 2013

Emanuel 2012

Galina 2013

Johan 2009

Ksenija 2010

Lidija 2014

Ljubov 2009

Ljuceta 2012

Ljudmila 2014

Maria 2013

Mihail 2015

Mihoko 2014

Nikolaj 2010

Nikolaj 2012

Olga 2012

Petros 2015

Serge 2015

Sjuzanna 2011

Svetlana 2013

Tatjana 2007

Tatjana 2011

Tatjana 2015

Valerij 2012

Vladimir 2014

Vladimir 2015

Zoja 2011


Matheryn NaovaratpongA little girl from Thailand stricken with brain cancer, Matheryn was

2, almost 3, when she became the youngest cryopatient to date in

January 2015.


Dr. Laurence O. Pilgeram

A cryopreservation member of Alcor since 1991, Laurence was involved in

cryonics early on. He gave a talk at the 1971 Cryonics Conference in San

Francisco, California, on “Abnormal in-Vitro Oxidation and Lypogenesis Induced

by Plasma in Patients with Thrombosis.” Dr. Pilgeram was awarded his PhD in

Biochemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 1953. He worked at

the University of Illinois College of Medicine, the University of Minnesota School

of Medicine, and the Baylor College of Medicine.


Mrs. Pugliese was a hardship case who deanimated in December 2013

without cryonics arrangements or funding. Her son, Ron Putirka, had

her brain preserved in fixative and raised funds through the Society

for Venturism and she became an Alcor patient in July 2014. (She is

shown with Ron Putirka’s dog, Benje, who is a pet cryopatient at

Alcor.)

Elizabeth Pugliese


Mother of Alcor Member Ron Selkovich, Rose Plasetsky was born in

Russia in May 1906, emigrated to England, and married Mark Selkovitch

in March 1933. She was cryopreserved at Alcor in March 2008 at nearly

age 102, the oldest person so far to undergo the procedure.

Mariette (Rose) Selkovitch


Ron became an Alcor member back in 1995. Since that time, he saw not

only his mother be cryopreserved, but also his wife just three months

prior. His mother Rose was the oldest person to be cryopreserved, at

nearly 102 years old in 2008. He was a retired engineer who worked with

computers. He was born in London in 1934 and cryopreserved as Alcor’s

141st patient in August 2015.

Ronald Selkovitch


In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Friends and Family of the Church, Not Cryopreserved


In Memoriam

Gloria Avis Owen GuntherBeloved mother of Debra Gunther Faloon, and Christine and Glenn. She

was born on 6-30-1925 in Chicago, then moved to Brooklyn, NY. Gloria was

only 46 years old when she suffered and succumbed to cancer. She was a

Girl Scout leader & wonderful cheerful health conscious woman whom we

could have saved in today's time. She died on her 26th wedding

anniversary on 6-3-1972 and coincidentally her husband, Harold Edward

Gunther, 26 years later died on that same day in 1998. Too young and

gone too soon to be suspended.


In Memoriam

With beloved memories from

David Wiseberg

Herma Jacobs


In Memoriam

Oblikova (2013)

Oblikova’s son started cryonics arrangements and

wanted to cryopreserve her when she died.

Unfortunately his father (her husband)

intervened and managed to get his son

institutionalized. Despite KrioRus’ legal and

media efforts we could not prevent the burial

and could not get the son to be released.


In Memoriam

Andrey Saharov (2015)

Andrey cryopreserved his father, but died

himself several years later. His mother promptly

buried him and KrioRus only learned about this

when she demanded the body of her

cryopreserved husband for burial. Her requests

were ignored.


In Memoriam

Susan F. VanDeRee

Susan passed away with her family by her side in

Venice, Florida shortly after cancer was

discovered. She was predeceased by her husband

George and daughter Paula. She is survived by six

children: Kathleen, Mark, Ned, Neal, Dave and

Beth. She graduated Nursing School at St Mary's.School of Nursing in New Jersey as an RN. Susan married and settled in

north New Jersey and in 1970 resettled in Venice, Florida. People who

knew her often said that she was generous in spirit, fun, kind, and

spiritually fearless. Susan was a devout Catholic and member of The

Epiphany Church for 45 years. She was a member of the Epiphany Prayer

Circle for over 35 years and a Hospice volunteer. She was a wonderful

mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, wife, and a good friend of

many. She is greatly missed.


In Memoriam

Susan M. "Sue" VanDeRee

the family business Triple Trouble Charter Fishing for 29 years,

and established VanDeree & Sons Home Watch Service and

Property Management. Preceded in death by her mother

Virginia Ponder Higel and her brother Douglas Oatman, Susan

is survived by Ned, her loving husband of 28 years, sons

Richard Jackson, and Samuel Jackson and his wife Rebecca.

Sue was devoted to her family, a loving mother, proud “Nana,”

and cherished friend. She will be greatly missed by all who

knew and loved her.

Susan passed away after a brief illness of a

very rare cancer which surrounded her heart

on October 2, 2015 with her loving family by

her side. She was a notary public, managed


In Memoriam

Mikhail Voronin (2012)

Mikhail was a long-time supporter of life-

extension and a member of the Fedorov society.

He was signed up for cryonics with KrioRus. His

former wife (he was divorced) illegally got

control over his body after he died and despite

KrioRus’ legal and media efforts managed to

have him cremated.


In Memoriam

Estel Wiseberg

With beloved memories from

David Wiseberg

Aaron Wiseberg

Joyce Wiseberg


Cryonics Patients


Dr. James H. Bedford

The first person frozen under controlled conditions for possible later revival,

Dr. Bedford was a serious man of pleasant disposition, who made many friends.

In 1966 the 73-year-old retired professor became the first person to make

advance arrangements for cryopreservation, which was carried out the

following January by the Cryonics Society of California. After years of private

storage by relatives he was transferred to Trans Time in the 1970s and now is

at Alcor. “Don’t be afraid to wear overalls,” the practical-minded psychology

professor would tell his students. “Dr. Jim” knew many honors, wrote books on

vocational guidance, taught for years in California schools, and undertook

several wilderness expeditions.


Chihiro Asaumi


Margaret Bradshaw


John was one of the pioneers in cryonics, joining the Cryonics Society of New

York in the 1960s. John later joined the Cryonics Institute. From 1996 he

edited the journals of the Immortalist Society (THE IMMORTALIST and LONG

LIFE). He assisted with moving ten cryonics patients from Cryospan in

California to CI in Michigan. John became CI's 120th patient in January 2014.

John was the very first CI Member to sign-up for Suspended Animation, Inc.

service, and SA ensured that John received good patient care.

John Bull


Joseph G. Cannon and Theresa M. Cannon

Born in Wisconsin in 1915, Joseph George Cannon studied engineering in

college and became a licensed consulting engineer in the early 1940s. Around

mid-1945 he married Theresa (Terry) Mackey who would be his wife of many

years. Terry was born in Michigan in 1916 and was an elementary-school speech

correctionist by profession. Joe boasted that in 39 years of marriage they

never had an argument, though they did have disagreements. The Cannons

purchased property in Florida and started spending their winters there,

returning to their home in Wisconsin for the warmer months. Joe and Terry had

a longtime interest in cryonics which culminated in their cryopreservations at

Alcor as an unusual married couple who both have exercised that option.


Fred Chamberlain II

Fred Jr. was the father of Fred Chamberlain III who with his wife Linda

founded Alcor in 1972. Born in Berkeley, California in 1897, he soon moved

to Plainfield, New Jersey. He entered Brown University (Providence, RI) in

1914 but left during World War I to enlist in the U. S. Army. He married

Elizabeth Morecock in 1928. For a number of years Fred Jr. renovated and

operated a farm in Keswick, Virginia and lived at several residences in that

state. In 1968 he lost his wife to a sudden coronary and moved to

California. Now past seventy, he became interested in the fledgling

cryonics movement along with his son, Fred III. Alcor was started and Fred

Jr. contributed funding for the related, sister organization, Manrise, that

was instrumental in his cryopreservation which occurred July 16, 1976.


With his wife Linda, Fred incorporated Alcor in 1972, and was

cryopreserved on March 22, 2012.

Among his many talents, Fred wrote inspiring poetry and loved to play the

guitar and keyboard. An accomplished engineer, he was the first to

standardize a scientific cryo-preservation protocol, built the first perfusion

equipment himself, and put it all into a manual so others could duplicate

this work. He was a pioneer in evolving cryonics out of the mortuary.

Fred is still part of all of us in the Terasem Collective Consciousness and we

will continue to enjoy his warm creativity again soon.

Fred Chamberlain III


Lyubov ChernayaLyubov was a therapist and the loving mother

of Valeriya Udalova, the director of "KrioRus."


John ConnoleJohn Connole was a member of the Cryonics Institute since 1991. John

was at one time the Contracts Officer for CI (the person who verifies that

member contracts are completed). John worked in the aerospace industry

before he retired.


Dr. Eugene T. Donovan

Gene was a psychiatrist. He had always wished for immortality. He believed

that science and medicine would someday provide for it but he also believed

that it would never be within his personal reach until he found out about

cryonics.

Cyndi Donovan said "Gene was dying. Gene wanted to be suspended and

Gene needed to die with what I called a "dream in his pocket." So we

decided that night to do everything possible to make that dream come true."


Wesley du Charme


Viola Rose DufaultViola is the grandmother of CI Member Kevin Boyle. She appeared on

television interviews with Kevin in response to journalist interest in Kevin’s

dog Thor's cryopreservation and became a CI Member herself. She attended

the 2006 Annual General Meeting at the Cryonics Institute with her

grandson Kevin where she was thrilled to meet and have several friendly

conversations with Robert Ettinger throughout the weekend.

Viola Rose Dufault was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on January 9, 1919.

During most of her working career she was an office manager for various

Boston area companies. Viola was a very outgoing person, she enjoyed

travelling and made friends easily. She was also a voracious reader.


Dr. John Erfurt

With CI Member Andrea Foot, Dr. Erfurt established the “Wellness

Outreach at Work Program” at the University of Michigan, which

included regular blood pressure checks at automakers. In their honor,

the University of Michigan School of Social Work established the “Andrea Foote-Jack Erfurt Scholarship.” The CI storage and

operations facility is named the Erfurt-Runkel Building in honor of

John (“Jack”) Erfurt and Walter Runkel.


Elaine Ettinger

She was Robert Ettinger's first wife and mother of Robert Ettinger’s two

children David (born 1951) and Shelley (born 1954). Elaine became the

second patient of the Cryonics Institute in 1987.


Mae Ettinger

She was Robert Ettinger's second wife and became the 34th patient of the

Cryonics Institute on March 23, 2000. Robert Ettinger described the day of

her death as the worst day of his life, despite his World War II battle-field

injuries which earned him a Purple Heart.


Rhea Chaloff Ettinger

Loving mother of Robert Ettinger, who became the first patient of the

Cryonics Institute in 1977.


Robert Chester Wilson EttingerRobert was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of

the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality. The book said that

future technological advances could be used to bring people back to life. He is

considered by some a pioneer transhumanist on the basis of his 1972 book Man into

Superman. Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute and the related Immortalist

Society. Ettinger became an "overnight” media celebrity with many published

articles and television appearances and radio programs in which he promoted the

idea of human cryopreservation. Since the commercial publication of The Prospect

of Immortality, all those active in cryonics today can trace their involvement,

directly or indirectly, to the publication of one or both of Ettinger's books.


Lidiya Fedorenko

Lidiya was a teacher of mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia. She loved

life. There were her friends, family and, of course, all the former math

students she had taught over the decades.

“She wanted to extend her life by another 200 to 300 years,” her son Daniil

Fedorenko said. Her last wish was eventual resurrection.


Hal Finney

Loving husband of Fran Finney, Hal was recently renowned as "Bitcoin’s

Earliest Adopter." In 2009 he received the very first bitcoin transaction from

Satoshi Nakamoto. He was long known as a renowned cryptographer,

programmer, an avowed libertarian and well-known figure within the

cyberpunks. Finney created the first so-called “cyberpunk remailer,” a piece

of software that would receive encrypted email and bounce messages to

their destinations to prevent anyone from identifying the sender, presaging

the anonymity software Tor. He also became the first coder to work with Phil

Zimmermann on Pretty Good Privacy or PGP, the first freely available strong

crypto tool, and designed the software’s “web-of-trust” model of verifying

PGP users’ identities.


FM-2030 (Fereidoun M. Esfandiary)

A prominent futurist author and longtime cryonicist, FM-2030 became an Alcor

patient in July 2000. In the 1960s he gained prominence for three novels, The

Day of Sacrifice, The Beggar, and Identity Card. In the 1970s he started a popular

series of books about the future which came to include Optimism 1, Up-Wingers,

Telespheres, Are You a Transhuman?, and finally, Countdown to Immortality. He

changed his name to FM-2030 hoping to remain active to the year he would

celebrate his 100th birthday. He had a strongly positive view of life and the

future. In the introduction of Up-Wingers he summarizes this feeling. “My regret

is that I am not optimistic enough. It is not possible to project the fantastic

worlds which will continue to open up to us in the coming years. Worlds which

far transcend my most daring optimism.”


Dr. Andrea Foote

With CI Member John (“Jack”) Erfurt, Dr. Foote established the “Wellness

Outreach at Work Program” at the University of Michigan, which included

regular blood pressure checks at automakers. In their honor, the University

of Michigan School of Social Work established the “Andrea Foote-Jack

Erfurt Scholarship”. Andrea was briefly President of the Cryonics Institute

before contracting cancer and being cryopreserved at CI in 1995.


Helmer Fredriksson

Helmer was the husband of CI Director Marta Sandberg. He and Marta

traveled from Australia to Michigan when Helmer became seriously ill, and

established a standby team in an apartment near the Cryonics Institute.

Helmer became the Cryonics Institute’s 14th patient on December 16,

1994.


Arlene Frances Fried

From: "Her Blue Eyes Will Sparkle" by Linda Chamberlain

“Arlene's blue eyes sparkled as she told the hospice nurse, "I feel wonderful!" Her

voice was weak. It trembled as she continued.”

“My mother was quite a character, a great role model in many ways, and a

woman who became a strong cryonics convert in the last few months of her life.”

“We'd made a promise long ago, to meet again in the future at the most elegant

lounge on the moons of Saturn, overlooking the rings, and to toast the old days:

the struggle to survive. It will become a centennial event: meeting to share

travelers' tales. And being there, together, I know Arlene's blue eyes will sparkle

as we toast to success and to being together again!”


Michael Louis Friedman

Michael was an Alcor Suspension Member since 1987. An attorney, Michael

was gunned down in a Los Angeles law library, slain by a disgruntled client he

hardly knew. The client, 62-year-old James Sinclair, had a grudge against the

police for alleged misconduct, and also a history of mental problems. The

38-year-old Friedman had agreed to take his case when another attorney

dropped it after being threatened. Still trying to familiarize himself and

photocopying some documents, Friedman was shot.


James Gallagher

Jim was a software developer from Sunset Beach, California. Jim was a

libertarian; he felt that the concept of government was inherently flawed.

As he put it: "Since there will always be people that cheat, steal, pillage,

maim and murder, we are told, society requires institutions that cheat,

steal, pillage, maim and murder to protect us from those people."

A self-described Air Force brat, Jim served an enlistment of three years in

the US Army and got out in 1962, before he could be sent to Viet Nam. He

lived in Nicaragua and later the Bahamas before returning to California.

He was CryoCare's first patient to be suspended.


Paul Garfield


Jim Glennie

As time passed, the idea of cryonics began to appeal to Jim. He had always

had faith in science, and wanted to see the future and experience the

rewards it could bring. When he discovered he had a life-threatening

illness, he had no further doubts. He completed the necessary paperwork

and became an Alcor member. Jim lived in Colorado where he was a

hydrogeologist; he specialized in mapping groundwater. Jim and his

remarkable wife, Mary Margaret (Carin Idun), had chosen to fight Jim's

illness with every possible resource. In the end there was only one choice

left: To cryopreserve himself in the hope that he would be revived in a

future when his illness could be cured.


Gregory Grapski


Hugh Hart

Hugh was a Phi Beta Kappa who had taught mathematics for 16 years.

Although He died at the age of 75 in 2002, he was still working fulltime as a

counselor for a pension fund. Hugh, who had never married, left his entire

estate to the Cryonics Institute. Hugh lived alone and, unfortunately, died

on a Friday in his apartment, and was not found until the following Monday.


David Hayes

David was one of the original founders of Suspended Animation, Inc., and

was a long time member of Alcor. Due to David's youthful age of 46, his

clinical death was referred to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's

office. Through legal counsel, Alcor was successful in negotiating with the

courts to allow for a virtual autopsy to be performed in place of the

typically more invasive procedure. After a CT scan was performed and the

medical examiner was satisfied with the results, they agreed to release the

body to Suspended Animation, who was working on Alcor's behalf.


Curtis Henderson

Curtis graduated from Pennsylvania Military College and Temple University law

school. He passed the New York bar exam. He was a co-founder of The Cryonics

Society of New York (CSNY) along with Saul Kent, James Sutton, and a designer

named Karl Werner. At the organizational meeting, Karl Werner coined the word

"cryonics.” Curtis soon became the President.

Curtis and Saul Kent spent October 1966 touring the United States to assist in the

consolidation of the nascent cryonics movement. On October 2 they attended a

meeting in Oak Park, Michigan which led to the formation of the Cryonics Society of

Michigan, with Robert Ettinger as President. On October 14 they attended a

meeting in Woodland Hills, California where it was agreed to incorporate the

Cryonics Society of California (CSC), with Robert Nelson as President. The following

January, CSC cryopreserved the first person, Dr. James Bedford.


James Hourihan


Richard Clair Jones "Dick Clair"

Richard Clair Jones was born in San Francisco in 1931. He served in the

military for two years, 1955-57, and by the early ’60s was active in his

chosen profession, entertainment. Using the stage name Dick Clair, he and

his partner, Jenna McMahon, performed dozens of husband-and-wife

comedy skits on the Ed Sullivan show and other television programs, but his

greatest success was in writing scripts and producing shows. The comedy

team of Clair and McMahon won three Emmys for the Carol Burnett show

and created the TV sitcoms “Facts of Life,” “It’s a Living,” “Mama’s

Family,” and “Flo.” Jones’s involvement in cryonics started early, around

1965, when he read The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger. Dick

Jones, who became an AIDS patient, was cryopreserved by Alcor in 1988.


Larisa Karpuk


Dora Kent

The mother of longtime cryonics activist and supporter Saul Kent, Dora Kent

was born in Poland in 1904 of a Jewish background and emigrated to the United

States in 1922 along with her parents, Samuel and Sarah (Lev) Rothbort and an

older sister, Mollie. Dora’s husband, William Kent, died in 1940 when Saul, their

only child, was less than a year old, so Saul had no memory of his father and his

mother did not remarry. Saul remembers this: “My mother was both mother

and father to me, and she was very devoted to me. She brought me up by

herself. She stayed in the house and worked as a dressmaker at home. It wasn’t

until I was about fourteen or fifteen that she went out and got a job. My mother

really believed in being independent and having as much freedom as possible—

and I learned a lot of the way I am today from my mother.”


Lyudmila KiselevaLoving mother of Margaret Kiseleva.


Sergej KucherenkoSergej was a worker in Kirovograd, Ukraine.


Edward W. Kuhrt


Jerry D.

Leaf

Jerry Leaf was born in Artesia, California, close to Los Angeles, and spent much

of his life in that vicinity. Jerry’s wartime experiences helped orient him toward

an unusual career in trying to extend human life. In 1966 he heard a lecture on

cryonics, was intrigued, and started corresponding with cryonics groups. In time

he would become an instructor in thoracic surgery, coauthor over 25 papers from

the UCLA laboratory, and set up a program for the cryogenic storage of heart

valves and arteries for transplantation into children. Meanwhile he became

active in cryonics and would direct some landmark experiments at Alcor in the

1980s to demonstrate recovery of funtion after initial stages of

cryopreservation, using animal models. A heart attack led to his

cryopreservation at Alcor in 1991. Cryonics benefited greatly while he was

active, achieving a new level of technical sophistication and respect.


Alexey Lomzhev


Dr. Richard MarshRichard (“Dick”) Marsh was a director of the Bay Area Cryonics Society

(which became the American Cryonics Society). He was a Professor of

Broadcast Communication Arts at San Francisco State University for 24

years before he retired. Richard was one of the ten American Cryonics

Society patients shipped from Cryospan in California to the Cryonics

Institute in April 2004.


John Monts


Dr. Thomas Munson

Dr. Munson was a psychiatrist who practiced Gestalt Therapy, and who

became the Primary Medical Director for Alcor during the early years of

that organization. Dr. Munson had been interested in cryonics almost from

the beginning of the movement as a member of Ev Cooper’s Life Extension

Society (a proto-cryonics organization which disbanded in the 1970s). Dr.

Munson was cryopreserved by Alcor in 2003.


Darius Nelson


William O'Rights

Bill legally changed his name in 2002 to William Constitution O'Rights (Bill

O'Rights, name at birth: Billie Joe Bonsall). He described himself as an

"extreme libertarian." Bill joined the Cryonics Institute in June 2000 and

completed his CI paperwork in July 2008. Bill was a lifetime member of the

Immortality Institute (ImmInst), which he joined in August 2002. He made

nearly ten thousand postings to ImmInst forums. Ben Best said "I respected

his intelligence and his determined fight against death. Bill is a man who

relentlessly questions and distrusts authority, thinking for himself. He clung

to life with every fiber of his being."


Stanislaw Penksa

Stanley, or "Stash" as his parents called him was born on April 13, 1896. His

parents came to the United States in 1890, hailing from Novytarg, Poland.

Contracting was Stanley's most enduring profession, continuing for about

forty years. But there were others along the way. It's hard to tell what drew

Stanley to cryonics, but it also sparked a great interest. He received

Cryonics magazine for many years before deciding to go further, but then

he signed up quickly and wanted to know what else he could do. Everyone

we saw spoke well of Stanley and considered him a pillar of the community.

Many newspaper clippings detail his donations to various local civic

organizations, including the hospital and fire department.


Henrietta Popper


William Reeves


Orville Richardson


Anita Riskin


Mary Robbins


Dennis Ross

Alcor Member Dennis Ross served as CEO of both an insulating materials

corporation and a crisis center, both of which became very successful under

his leadership. He was also active politically as a "pro-business, pro-

capitalist Democrat." He served as deputy chief of staff for the Florida

Governor in 1980, and later as Florida deputy finance director for both of

Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns.


Walter Runkel

Walt Runkel was one of the four founding Members of the Cryonics

Institute. He was technical Director of a TV network studio in Detroit. He

was a hands-on person, good with tools, who helped with the construction

and outfitting of the original CI facility. He owned an apple orchard and

developed a new sub-species of apple, the “Runkel apple.” The CI storage

and operations facility is named the Erfurt-Runkel Building in honor of Jack

Erfurt and Walter Runkel.


Valentina Samykina

Valentina was a loving mother.

She worked as a civil servant in Moscow, Russia.


Nadezhda Sannikova


Rocco (Roy) Schiavello

Mrs. Costa's brother, Rocco ("Roy") Schiavello, a 30-year-old computer

programmer, teacher, and amateur astronomer, had been operated on for a

deep-seated oligodendrocytoma on 20 June. He experienced cardiac arrest

approximately 48 hours afterward without ever regaining consciousness.

Prior to his operation, Roy had secured a promise from his family that if he

did not survive the operation, he should be placed into cryonic suspension.

According to Mrs. Costa, Roy had often talked about cryonics and had

always said he wanted to be frozen, whenever discussions about death or

methods of disposition came up in conversation.


Paul E. Segall

Paul Segall was an early cryonics activist in the New York City area, doing

volunteer work with Curtis Henderson for the Cryonics Society of New York in

the 1960s while pursuing a career in the biological sciences. In 1971 he

relocated to the University of California, Berkeley to complete his doctoral

dissertation, under the noted aging researcher Paola Timiras. Paul also became

active in the Bay Area cryonics organization Trans Time, where he directed a

well-publicized series of experiments with hamsters to demonstrate recovery of

function in mammals after cardiac arrest and partial freezing, and gained

further publicity with Segall’s dog, Miles, who was cooled to near the ice point

and then revived. In 1990 Segall and associates formed the biotech company

BioTime. Paul Segall deanimated in 2003 and was cryopreserved at Trans Time.


Svetlana Grigorievna SemenovaSvetlana, loving mother of Anastasia Gacheva, was the head of the Fedorov

movement in Russia. She was a distinguished literary critic and philosopher with

many works in the intellectual revolution. The movement does not recognize

death, separation, or any limits from the benefit of the human genius. Svetlana

wrote the first monograph on Rasputin.


Sylvia Sinclair

Sylvia Sinclair was the wife of the pioneer British Cryonicist Alan Sinclair.

Sylvia had for many years assisted her husband in the establishment of

cryonics capabilities in England. In May 2013 Silvia became the first patient

to be perfused in the UK with CI’s vitrification solution, and then shipped in

dry ice to the Cryonics Institute.


James H. StevensonJames “Jim” Stevenson, Ph.D., worked for NASA for 35 years in the Human

Systems Integration division. Jim was blind, a libertarian, and a long-time

advocate of cryonics. A few years ago he had this to say about his work:

“I am an experimental psychologist. I am also blind. My work has

applications for sighted as well as blind people. It involves representing

mathematics, graphs, statistics, statistical structures what we call

stochastic processes and Markov chains in multiple variables in each of

those and representing them as sound. So they are tone encoded sonic

representations of complex data structures.”


Kim Suozzi

Kim was a nineteen-year-old sophomore studying psychology at Truman

State College in Kirksville, Missouri when she took a cognitive science

course. There she read Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines, “really

liked it, found it really compelling.” She became interested in

transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and cryonics, though like many

young, healthy people she didn’t focus much on her own mortality. Two

years later she suddenly started having odd headaches. A checkup

produced a grim diagnosis: she had glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive

form of brain cancer with a poor cure rate. Her funds were very limited.

She turned to the Internet. Her case was widely publicized and donations

were collected through the Society for Venturism. With that and other

sources of funding she was cryopreserved at Alcor in January 2013.


Peter TomaPeter Toma, Ph.D., was born in Doboz, Hungary, in 1924. Peter immigrated to

the United States in 1952. His first professional job was in 1954 at the California

Institute of Technology’s physics lab in Pasadena. Since Peter spoke several

languages, the inspiration came to use new computer technology for

translation. Eventually, Peter’s machine language translation programs

developed into a suite of software called Systran. Systran has performed

extensive work for many government agencies and countless Universities and

Fortune 500 companies. The advent of the Internet led Alta Vista, and

eventually Yahoo, to use his software to run the web based application known

as BabelFish. It allowed for instant crossplatform language translation.


Yuliya Vertelets'ka

Yuliya was born on April 6th 1990 in Shyshaky, Poltava region, Ukraine. She

spent her senior year studying at Williston High School, Florida, USA,

winning the Future Leaders Exchange Program. Afterwards she went to

study to Prague, Czech Republic, where she received her bachelor's degree

in International Business, Faculty of International Relations of the

University of Economics, Prague. She was fluent in English, Ukrainian,

Russian, German, Spanish, Czech and also studied French. She sang well

and played the piano since she was 6 years old. Her hobbies were sports,

dancing and photography. Her life motto was "Never, never, never give up

and you will make a difference".


Olga Visheva

Olga was the wife of the famous blind Russian philosopher-immortalist Igor

Vladimirovich Vishev. They lived in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

The Vishevs signed cryopreservation contracts after scrupulous research of

the whole field. It came to be the natural and logical manifestation of Igor

Vishev’s and Olga Aleksandrovna’s beliefs. Igor Vladimirovich became blind

when he was 14 years old, after an accident. He met his wife when he was

a student at university. She became his eyes, and, for life, his "other half.”


Jerry White

Jerry White was one of the founding Members of the American Cryonics

Society as well as of Trans Time, Inc. He worked as a software designer on

many NASA projects. He was cryopreserved in 1994 at the age of 55 after

many months of suffering from complications of the AIDS virus. Jerry was

one of the ten American Cryonics Society patients shipped from Cryospan in

California to the Cryonics Institute in April 2004.


Eleanor Williams


Patricia Luna Wilson

Patricia Luna Wilson, better known as Luna Wilson, was the daughter of

immortalist writer and organizer Robert Anton Wilson and poet Arlen Riley

Wilson. Luna was a pacifist, a vegetarian and lover of people and animals.

On October 2, 1976, while working at a clothing store, she was beaten to

death in an apparent robbery. Her brain was cryopreserved by the Bay Area

Cryonics Society (later American Cryonics Society).


Kira YurasovaKira was the grandmother of Danila Andreevich Medvedev,

the Chairman of the Board of Directors of KrioRus.


Jackson “Jack” Zinn

Jack was a California lawyer with a long history of cryonics membership.

Jack has had cryonics arrangements with the American Cryonics Society (of

which he was once President), Trans Time, Alcor and most recently CI. He

even tried to start his own cryonics organization (the International Cryonics

Foundation). He involved himself in a number of cryonics-related legal

cases, such as the fight to establish the legal right to cryonics in California.

Jack may be most recently remembered for the "High Rollers" conferences

that he organized in Laughlin, Nevada, in the late 1990s.


Leonard Zubkoff

At the time of his untimely demise and cryopreservation in 2002, the 44-

year-old Leonard Zubkoff lived in Crystal Bay, Nevada. World-renowned for

his expertise in computer architecture and operating systems, he was also

an entrepreneur who had become wealthy. He trained to be a helicopter

pilot and was close to receiving his license. On August 29 he was flying over

a lake with an experienced instructor, in the Misty Fjords National

Monument Wilderness near Ketchikan, Alaska. For reasons unknown the

copter took a flip-dive into the cold water, landing upside down; the two

aboard were casualties mainly by drowning. His cryopreservation was brain-

only, after a mandatory autopsy in Anchorage before his remains were

released by the medical examiner and transported to Alcor in Arizona.


Ekaterina Zykova

2015


More than 330 total souls


Tonight we also also remember those other

members of our cryonics family whose names are

still private. We pray that they too, and everyone

else that becomes cryonically suspended, will

someday be resurrected and brought back to life

with future technology.

ChurchofPerpetualLife.org

www.perpetual.life

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