{"id":91502,"date":"2019-05-31T23:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/california-man-becomes-the-first-death-with-dignity-patient-to-undergo-cryonic-preservation"},"modified":"2019-05-31T23:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:22:22","slug":"california-man-becomes-the-first-death-with-dignity-patient-to-undergo-cryonic-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/california-man-becomes-the-first-death-with-dignity-patient-to-undergo-cryonic-preservation","title":{"rendered":"California Man Becomes the First \u2018Death With Dignity\u2019 Patient to Undergo Cryonic Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/california-man-becomes-the-first-death-with-dignity-patient-to-undergo-cryonic-preservation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A terminally ill patient who opted for assisted death has undergone cryonic preservation at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. This preservation\u2014the first of its kind\u2014signifies an important milestone for cryonics advocates, who argue that the right to death, paradoxically, is a potential pathway to an eternal life.<\/p>\n<p>On October 30, 2018, Alcor performed its 164th cryopreservation. It was an otherwise unremarkable moment for the nonprofit organization, save for the way Norman Hardy of Mountain View, California met his demise. Hardy was diagnosed with terminal metastatic prostate cancer, and it had spread to his bones and lungs. As noted in Alcor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcor.org\/blog\/alcor-member-a-1990-becomes-alcors-164th-patient-on-october-30-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case summary<\/a>, his \u201cpain had been poorly managed,\u201d so he opted for assisted death, which was legalized in California in 2016 through the End of Life Options Act (EOLOA).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/california-man-becomes-the-first-death-with-dignity-p-1831652934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terminally ill patient who opted for assisted death has undergone cryonic preservation at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. This preservation\u2014the first of its kind\u2014signifies an important milestone for cryonics advocates, who argue that the right to death, paradoxically, is a potential pathway to an eternal life. On October 30, 2018, Alcor performed its 164th [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91502","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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}