> DOES THE CRYONICS INSTITUTE (CI) ACCEPT DONATIONS?

Yes.

And not only in the form of cash. We as an organization are very much in need of skilled, professional-level volunteer help. If you have skills in anything from desktop publishing to giving talks at local schools and churches to medical service, and you're interested only in donating some time, we call or email us! We'd be glad to hear from you.

Extra income can always strengthen any organization and money given to the Cryonics Institute would enable us to do more and to provide even better service, with better technology. It will allow us to withstand any great legal, social or political challenges we may face. We have faced such challenges in the past, survived and have been strengthened as a result. We have been helped by tremendous support from our Members and friends.

Members can help financially by arranging for regular small donations from a credit card. Or they can increase the amount of the life insurance to a figure well above the minimum required for cryopreservation. (This is a good idea anyway, because new technologies may become available in the future at extra cost.)

Some of the most generous and helpful donations we receive are in the form of bequests. Members will simply make CI the beneficiary of a large portion of their estate, so that the organization that is keeping them cryopreserved will be stronger and more certain to be able to maintain them in cryopreservation for as long as necessary.

Our Research Department is headed by Dr. Yuri Pichugin, a Ph.D cryobiologist with well over twenty years' experience, and nearly forty publications in peer-reviewed professional journals to his credit. Since joining CI, Dr. Pichugin has even been asked to consult with personnel at Harvard Medical School on matters involving children's epilepsy.

Dr. Pichugin's experiments have resulted in unquestionable improvements in our levels of patient care. And his new series of experiments could not only add significantly to our members' earlier recovery and well-being, but to the general scientific knowledge itself. The rewards to people like you who are interested in cryonics, and to society in general, could be immense.

Visit our Research page. Learn more about who we are and what we're trying to do.

The Cryonics Institute accepts donations. But although we are a non-profit corporation we are not a charitable corporation. So contributions to CI are not tax-deductible.

Contributions to the Immortalist Society are tax-deductible, however, because the Immortalist Society is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. And the Immortalist Society has a Cryonics Research Fund which has contributed greatly to the research program of the Cryonics Institute. If you have appreciated assets in the form of stock or real estate that you wish to donate, you may be able to donate the full appreciated value of those assets and deduct the full amount of that appreciated value from your income tax. For details on this subject visit the page on our website entitled Maximizing Tax Benefits of Charitable Giving to the Immortalist Society (click on the underscored title).

You can send your donation by mail with check or money order enclosed to the Immortalist Society, 24355 Sorrentino Court, Clinton Township MI 48035 USA (payable to the Immortalist Society). We also accept credit cards (VISA, MasterCard and American Express) by phone or via PayPal. To pay with credit card by phone, call (586) 791-5961. To pay by PayPal, visit www.paypal.com for more information. When making payments to the Immortalist Society via Paypal, the address to pay to is immsoc@aol.com.