Current Issue
Volume 2, Issue 3 - 3rd Quarter, 2007


Why Transbemans in Biostasis are Alive
Dr. Rothblatt combines her legal and biotechnical expertise to explore a definition of legally being alive as it pertains to the present definition of death and how both relate to those cryogenically preserved or in biostasis.
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Keywords: Martine Rothblatt, definition, being alive, cryogenically preserved, biostasis, cryostasis, cybernetic biostasis, cyberconsciousness, transbeman, autonomy, death, legally alive, legally not dead, really alive, really not dead, Alcor, vitrification, cyber-life, medico-legal, cybernetic substrate, deathism, National Commission of Laws, Uniform Determination of Death Act, National Death Opt-Out via Biostasis Registry, NDOBR, biostasis certificate, biostasee.


Terasem Mission
Educate the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness, concentrating in particular on facilitating revivals from biostasis.