Media & Resources

Understanding brain preservation

Videos, interviews, and reading on the science of brain preservation — from short introductions to in-depth talks and primary sources.

An introduction to brain preservation

The Brain Preservation Option — 3-minute explainer

A 3-minute explainer: the brain preservation option.

New to the topic? This short explainer covers the core idea: stabilising the brain's structure after legal death so the information it encodes — memories, personality, identity — is not lost. From there, the video series and talks below go deeper.

BPF documentary series

An eight-part series laying out the BPF's mission, the scientific objections, and how preservation could work.

Going deeper

Could science abolish death? — with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston (The Royal Institution)

The Royal Institution: Could science abolish death? — with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston.

Book · 2024

The Future Loves You

How and why we should abolish death — an accessible, science-grounded case for brain preservation, by BPF Executive Director Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston.

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Our newsletter follows the science, services, and policy of brain preservation as a medically supervised end-of-life option.

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A curated archive

Core writing and primary sources on brain preservation, mind uploading, and the neuroscience of memory, tagged by topic.

Key writings and research on brain preservation
Connectomics
Chemical preservation
Cryopreservation
Essays, Foundation documents & other writings

Brain preservation in the media

A combined archive of interviews and coverage featuring the BPF's researchers and mission — Ken Hayworth, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, and others — newest first.

Blog archive (2015–2021)

An archive of the BPF's original blog posts, preserved here in full. 38 posts, newest first.