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PHILIP RHOADES
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Scientist celebrates cold snap decision said
AUSTRALIA'S first cryogenic centre will be built by a
scientist who
wants to deep-freeze his parents and himself after they
die.
Biologist Philip Rhoades has won approval from health authorities to
build the complex — believed to be only the third in the
world.
Mr. Rhoades, 54, told the Herald Sun he believed future medical
advances
would bring them back to life in coming centuries.
He has already spent $650,000 developing plans for underground storage
at Cowra, 200km west of Sydney, and hopes to start building on the 60ha
site within six months.
"My parents are both science types, like me, and with my siblings are
interested in this great experiment," Mr. Rhoades said.
Cryonics laboratory
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Philip Rhoades has a BSc (1976,
University of New
South Wales -
Genetics/Zoology). From 1979-1984 he was enrolled part-time at UNSW in
a MSc degree (Pathology - unfinished). He is currently completing a
part-time PhD in
Population Genetics (computer
simulations).
Early in his career he was involved in
Haemophilia research however he
has now been in the IT industry for over 20 years. During this time he
has completed a couple of years of a Computer Science degree and
subjects from a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computational Science and
other non-degree computer courses.
Phil is currently a director in a number of companies involved in
IT,
Life Extension Villages,
BioMedical electronic monitoring,
Suspended Animation Research and has interests in all technologies
that
improve
the quality and duration of human life.
He has also had a life-long commitment to improving the quality of
life for as many other people on the planet as possible which has
included activism in: anti war, anti nuclear weapons/energy, pro
natural environment, anti organized religion, pro science and other
progressive political areas.
His general world view is that human technology, while providing
lots of useful things has been devastating the world's biodiversity for
thousands of years (particularly the last 200 years). This trend is
not sustainable but it is only relatively recently that we have had the
technological means for catastrophic self-destruction on a global
scale.
Phil believes that Homo sapiens has no choice but to dramatically
change it's behavior and start making fact-based political decisions
to start solving some monumental problems determining the survival of
the species.
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