# Alcor Life Extension Foundation **Entity class:** Organization **Domain:** Cryonics / Life extension **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is a cryonics organization that preserves people after legal death in the hope that future technology may repair damage and restore function. ## Mechanism and significance Its work sits at the boundary between present preservation procedures, uncertain future repair, personal identity, and long-horizon technological optimism. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence|Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence]] - **Primary fields:** [[Digital Human Twin]] · [[Machine Succession]] · [[Posthumous Avatar]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[High-Resolution Ancestor Avatar]] · [[AI-Mediated Personality Reconstruction]] · [[Cryonics]] · [[Behavioral Continuity]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. - [Alcor Life Extension Foundation](https://www.alcor.org/) — primary organizational or project source. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.