Real Life-Extension Chronicles: Pets as Consciousness Preservation Companions

## PLUG IN YOUR PUGHi. This is Bryant. It may surprise my readers, but in 1999, as a lifelong cybernetics enthusiast and a fervent transhumanist, I took a profound step into the speculative realm of life extension. I received my intake package from Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a pioneering organization that promised to preserve my brain in the event of catastrophic injury or death. The idea was straightforward yet profoundly audacious: my brain would be cryogenically frozen, awaiting a f...