If you are an organ donor, Alcor cannot get your body until your other
organs have been harvested. They will not put your body or head on ice
which is very bad for you and your cryopreservation arrangements. Alcor
highly recommends to the members not to be an organ donor due to this
conflict.
Interesting. What about donating non-vital or machine-replaceable organs while near death, and then cryo-preserving whatever’s left? That is, donate a kidney or something, at least. As technology improves, maybe one day you could live without even a heart, and have a machine pump the blood.
IAWYC, and donating a kidney is definitely a good idea. Though it might be best to do it before you get old so that both you and the kidney can handle it better. One thing to point out:
As technology improves, maybe one day you could live without even a heart, and have a machine pump the blood.
At that point, donor hearts wouldn’t be that useful.
Short Answer: They’re not compatible. Slightly longer answer: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=7190
Yup. Here is the reply I got from Alcor:
Glad to have it confirmed from them as well. Thank you :)
Interesting. What about donating non-vital or machine-replaceable organs while near death, and then cryo-preserving whatever’s left? That is, donate a kidney or something, at least. As technology improves, maybe one day you could live without even a heart, and have a machine pump the blood.
IAWYC, and donating a kidney is definitely a good idea. Though it might be best to do it before you get old so that both you and the kidney can handle it better. One thing to point out:
At that point, donor hearts wouldn’t be that useful.
That’s unfortunate. It’s a terrible waste of organs.