CryoCare Foundation

CryoCare Foundation is a non-profit corporation which plays a management role and takes legal responsibility for patients under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. CryoCare deals directly with the general public, disseminating information about cryonics and seeking new members. CryoCare keeps its members informed about progress in cryonics through its... quarterly newsletter. Its Patient Directors supervise the care that CryoCare's patients receive after legal death. When a member needs cryopreservation, CryoCare hires the services of BioPreservation, a for-profit company which we believe offered the most highly qualified personnel, the best equipment, and the most sophisticated procedures in cryonics today. Led by Michael Darwin and Steven Harris, MD, BioPreservation handles standby, stabilization, transport, perfusion, and cooldown to -79 degrees Celsius (dry-ice temperature). Patients are then transferred to our long-term care service provider, CryoSpan. This organization will cool the patient to -196 degrees Celsius for long-term maintenance in liquid nitrogen. Lastly, each patient's funding is placed with theIndependent Patient Care Foundation, an entirely separate and independent legal entity under the control of professional money managers. When people become members of CryoCare, they can specify a trusted friend or a group of people to act as their Patient Advocate after they are placed in cryopreservation. If a member chooses not to select a Patient Advocate, the Patient Directors of CryoCare fulfill that role.Read More