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 Hong
Du 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 Naovaratpong
A 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 Gunther
Beloved 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 Chernaya
Lyubov was a therapist and the loving mother
of Valeriya Udalova, the director of "KrioRus."

John Connole
John 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 Dufault
Viola 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 Ettinger
Robert 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 Kiseleva
Loving mother of Margaret Kiseleva.

Sergej Kucherenko
Sergej 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 Marsh
Richard (“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 Semenova
Svetlana, 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. Stevenson
James “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 Toma
Peter 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 Yurasova
Kira 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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