James Arrowood | The Ship to the Future: Inside Alcor and the Billion-Dollar Battle for Immortality | Part 1 of 2
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James Arrowood discusses the Alcor Life Extension Foundation and the future of cryonics.
In a quiet building in Scottsdale, Arizona, there is a room most people will never see. Inside that room, 263 human beings stand in carefully arranged steel vessels. Some died last week. Some died in the 1980s. One was born in the 1880s. They are not buried. They are not cremated. They are waiting. The man who walks through that room every day is our guest tonight. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the oldest continuously operating cryonics institution on earth. Arrowood is a Notre Dame-trained attorney who walked away from one of the most lucrative tracks in American law to lead a nonprofit research foundation whose ultimate goal is to one day restore the dead to life. Tonight he will tell us things he rarely discusses in public. He will explain why roughly 10 percent of the world's 50 wealthiest human beings have already made arrangements to be preserved at Alcor, and why almost none of them will say so on the record. He will describe the DART team, a unit of Navy SEALs, Special Operations veterans, fire captains, ICU nurses, and paramedics trained to recover members anywhere in the world within hours of legal death. He will…
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