Attempts to Prevent Autopsy for Cryonics
A General Statement about Autopsy Avoidance by Ben Best
Alcor 1988 (Florida): Bill Faloon persuades ME not to autopsy
Alcor 1989 (Spain): Full autopsy on a cryonics patient without knowledge or consent
Alcor 1991 (California): Court order prevents autopsy, toxicology sample only
Alcor 1992 (California): ME persuaded not to section brain of murder victim
Alcor 1993 (Texas): ME persuaded not to section brain of suicide victim
Alcor 1997 (Florida): ME persuaded not to autopsy brain of suicide victim
Alcor 2003 (California): ME persuaded not to autopsy an unattended death
Alcor 2004 (Undisclosed): ME persuaded not to perform autosy for unobserved death
Cryonics Institute 2006 (California): Coroner needlessly cut a cryonics patient's brain into pieces
Alcor 2006 (Ohio): Medical Examiner persuaded not to perform an autopsy
Alcor 2008 (Undisclosed): ME performed autopsy on homicide victim, releasing brain before body
Alcor 2008 (Barbados): Coroner persuaded to autopsy body but not brain
Alcor 2009 (Florida): Alcor prepared a legal contest against autopsy, which proved to be unnecessary
Alcor 2010 (California): ME persuaded to autopsy brain with CT scan
Alcor 2010 (Florida): Legal action was taken to prevent an invasive autopsy
Alcor 2012 (North Carolina): Medical Examiner persuaded by "legal input" not to perform an invasive autopsy
Alcor 2013 (Arizona): Legal challenge not prepared soon enough to prevent autopsy
Alcor 2014 (Arizona): Medical Examiner was persuaded not to perform an invasive autopsy
Alcor 2014 (Alabama): Coroner decided suicide obvious, so did not autopsy
Alcor 2015 (New Jersey): Medical Examiner persuaded to limit an autopsy to imaging
Alcor 2016 (Undisclosed): ME persuaded not to perform autosy for forewarned suicide
Alcor 2016 (Arizona): Physician persuaded to not recommend autopsy
Alcor 2016 (Florida): Medical Examiner decided against autopsy of unobserved death
Cryonics Institute 2017 (New Jersey): Cryonicist uses court order to get father's brain released by ME
Alcor 2018 (Florida): Medical Examiner was persuaded not to perform an invasive autopsy
Cryonics Institute 2018 (California): ME does not autopsy 167th patient due to faxed objection to autopsy document
Alcor 2019 (Arizona): Medical Examiner was persuaded not to perform an invasive autopsy
Alcor 2019 (Arizona): Medical Examiner persuaded not to perform an invasive autopsy
Alcor 2020 (California): Medical Examiner needlessly cut a cryonics patient's brain into pieces (video)