Sparks Brain Preservation

Here is a quote from a New Yorker Magazine article on longevity: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/how-to-live-forever-and-get-rich-doing-it At seventy-seven, Ray Kurzweil takes eighty supplements a day, has an artificial pancreas to manage his diabetes, and appears to be in great shape....

As part of our effort to improve our services and strengthen our membership program, we are planning on increasing the prices for remote preservation procedures by our staff in the near future. This change is due to both the improvements we have made and the realities of what high-quality preservati...

I am hereby submitting my candidacy for the Advisory Board of Directors. Here is some information about me. I have been interested in brain preservation since college. I originally signed up for preservation with the Cryonics Institute in 2009, and later switched to Alcor. I then switched to Oregon ...

I just signed up. Looking forward to seeing people on there! One note: When I first went to the login url (sparks-brain.circle.so), I needed to click -> "Not a member? Sign up". Then I needed to add my email address. When I first clicked the button to try to log in with a Google account, i...

Our research program is currently open to individuals in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. From our Services Page : "This is the same brain preservation procedure, with the goal of future revival if this ever becomes feasible and humane. The difference is that we will also remove two...

Good thoughts. This one is made of medical-grade stainless steel. It just slides over an existing wrist band. A lot of people have fitness bands, smart watches, etc, and this would be compatible with those. It looks to me like it would be fairly noticeable by EMTs, I think probably moreso than a nec...

Actually, that same enrollee just told me that the text on the 13 mm version is too small to read. The 19 mm is much better. He also wrote: "I also recommend the 19mm watch band version by far over the first one I sent you. Much more visible to EMTs, and I see it every time I check the time. Re...

One of our enrollees had some very useful feedback that the StickyJ IDs were not very effective and failed. Instead, they recommended Road ID. For example this one: https://www.roadid.com/products/elite-stainless-classic-id-bracelet?variant=40296608104538 Here is the text they put on it: [Name]/Brai...

As we have improved our capabilities over the past year, I wanted to provide an update on our standby options and current pricing estimates (which are determined on a case-by-case basis). We offer standby services for individuals who are known to be gravely ill and are expected to experience legal d...

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Emil Kendziorra, and I recently ran a survey of neuroscientists, asking them what they thought of the structural basis of memory, and how that extended to the possibility of brain preservation. I thought readers of this forum might be interested. Here is the preprint: http...

Thanks for pointing out this other option. I appreciate you working on this. It is clearly a major issue, as the recent case report from Alcor shows yet again (it also shows other major problems for our field). https://www.alcor.org/docs/alcor-case-report-a-1051.pdf One key quote: 1. Summary Informa...

Some enrollees are interested in having identifiers so that first responders and others know that they are enrolled for preservation services, if they suffer unexpected legal death. This is a useful idea. Here is a post by Carrie Radomski on the importance of this: https://biostasis.substack.com/p/a...

We have created a research program that allows people in certain areas to access brain preservation services at no cost to them. This requires that prospective patients agree to donate two small brain biopsy samples so that we can measure the preservation quality and contribute to science research. ...