{"id":237747,"date":"2026-05-26T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/my-video-tour-of-alcor-and-interview-with-ceo-max-more"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:04:51","slug":"my-video-tour-of-alcor-and-interview-with-ceo-max-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/my-video-tour-of-alcor-and-interview-with-ceo-max-more","title":{"rendered":"My Video Tour of Alcor and Interview with CEO Max More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/my-video-tour-of-alcor-and-interview-with-ceo-max-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/203100731-singularity1on1-alcor-ceo-max-more.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>What counts as death? And who gets to decide?<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2013, I traveled to Scottsdale, Arizona to visit the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world\u2019s leading cryonics organization, founded in 1972. CEO Dr. Max More gave me a full tour of the facilities and walked me through the entire process: from the moment clinical death is declared, through controlled cooling and vitrification, to the cryo-tanks holding (at the time) 117 patients in long-term storage.<\/p>\n<p>I also asked him, somewhat selfishly, whether my big bald head would fit comfortably in a neuro-patient container.<\/p>\n<p>After the tour, Max sat down with me for a 25-minute conversation that covered:<\/p>\n<p>Affordability and the real cost of membership Why minimizing cooling delays after clinical death is critical, and what long-distance members do about it Preserving pets, because of course people ask Chemical brain preservation as an alternative path The importance of protecting the neuron\u2019s microtubules The case for an X Prize style competition to reduce tissue damage Where cryonics sits inside the broader transhumanist project.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite line from Max, the one I still come back to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/my-video-tour-of-alcor-and-interview-with-ceo-max-more\">Continue reading \u201cMy Video Tour of Alcor and Interview with CEO Max More\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What counts as death? And who gets to decide? In the summer of 2013, I traveled to Scottsdale, Arizona to visit the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world\u2019s leading cryonics organization, founded in 1972. CEO Dr. Max More gave me a full tour of the facilities and walked me through the entire process: from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,2017,269,6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-cryonics","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}