Aurelia Song

Nelias in Verba.

By Aurelia.

Published on March 19, 2026.

Independent verification by the Brain Preservation Foundation and the Survival and Flourishing Fund.

The results so far.

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Cultivating independent verification.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

In my previous post, Less Dead, I said that my company, Nectum, has created a new method for whole-body, whole-brain, human end-of-life preservation for the purpose of future revival.

Our protocol is capable of preserving every synapse and every cell in the body with enough detail that current neuroscience says long-term memories are preserved.

It's compatible with traditional funerals at room temperature and stable for hundreds of years at cold temperatures.

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In this post, we'll dive into the evidence for these claims, as well as Nectum's overall approach to cultivating rigorous, independent validation of our methods, a cornerstone of the kind of preservation enterprise I want to be a part of.

to get to the current state of the art required two major developmental milestones.

Idealized preservation.

A method capable of preserving the nanostructure of the brain for small and large animals under idealized laboratory conditions.

Specifically, could we preserve animals well if we were allowed to perfectly control the time and conditions of death?

This work, 2015-2018, resulted in a brand new technique, aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation.

which was carefully independently vetted by Ken Hayworth of the Brain Preservation Foundation over a three-day-long marathon session during which I preserved a rabbit and pig under his supervision.

After, he reviewed multiple samples from both brains with electron microscopy.