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Insurance. You're betting technology will come far enough to build you a replacement body. You have nothing to lose because your other option is irreversible death.
Nothing to lose except the money you're spending on an icebox that you could've spent bettering the world you're leaving.
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You don't need to be rich. It costs very little to fund a $30k life insurance policy, which will get your whole body suspended with Cryonics Institute. Alcor is more, $80k for just the head.
> You don't need to be rich. No, but being rich helps with illusions of immortality and going with such a scheme.
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Insurance. You're betting technology will come far enough to build you a replacement body. You have nothing to lose because your other option is irreversible death.
Nothing to lose except the money you're spending on an icebox that you could've spent bettering the world you're leaving.
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> You don't need to be rich. No, but being rich helps with illusions of immortality and going with such a scheme.
You've posted four snide and low-content comments on this post. Do you have anything substantive to say, or are you just here to sneer?
Would you expect "substantive comments" to some post about the discovery of a perpetual motion machine or intelligent design?
Could I freeze my brain now and come back in thirty years?
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Insurance. You're betting technology will come far enough to build you a replacement body. You have nothing to lose because your other option is irreversible death.
Nothing to lose except the money you're spending on an icebox that you could've spent bettering the world you're leaving.
Would love to see some articles on statistics regarding the number of people who have been revived after this procedure. Is it still at 0%, with no scientific basis at all other than the evidence-free religious devotion of the faithful devotees, constantly posting claims without a shred of solid evidence?
This is going to be zero by default even with perfect preservation, given that the whole point is to freeze people because current medical technology can't keep them reliably alive for whatever reason.
There's no reason to even think about trying to revive people (rather than simply preserving them as thoroughly as possible) until geriatrics, cancer medicine, or whatever have advanced considerably.
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You don't need to be rich. It costs very little to fund a $30k life insurance policy, which will get your whole body suspended with Cryonics Institute. Alcor is more, $80k for just the head.
> You don't need to be rich. No, but being rich helps with illusions of immortality and going with such a scheme.
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[citation needed]
How about you bring me the citations that show that they care about morality in such a line of work? Or do you think assuming everybody is moral in every line of business is a baseline for how the universe is and everything more cynical is some sort of extra-ordinary claim? If yes, then you'd be surprised. That's the corollary to what P. T. Barnum said, that "there's a sucker born every minute". What they do, is sell…
Then consider you don't even have to be rich. As already noted on this very page (ed: I see you already noted that), it costs $80k to suspend your head with Alcor. Not $800k, which would still be pretty reasonable and not only for the rich, because someone in their 30s can pay only $60/mo for a 20-year life insurance policy paying out $1m.
Edit2: I'd also ask you to wonder if the company is evil, but trying to hide it so they can fool rich people, wouldn't they want to hide something like this which can be so easily used to characterize them as evil? http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/bringingdixieback.html