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A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future

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Re: A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future

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1) How do you know that all body freezing failures are pretty well documented? If they do not test recovery then they register only the most obvious failures. 2) "in the hopes that someday in the future someone will know" They promote and claim that revival will be possible in the future. Without any proof. So it is a confidence game. Hence "scam". There is a good chance that successful freezing and revival would be…

"They promote and claim that revival will be possible in the future. Without any proof. So it is a confidence game. Hence "scam"." Again, if you're talking about some group like Alcor, they say it may be possible in the future. I'd love it if you could provide some kind of evidence that they're not presenting the truth or trying to dupe people. Especially considering that so few people have actually signed up, so I'm…

If they charge money for their services, it is them who have to prove that their services work.

By default you should assume that stuff does NOT work.

If only few people actually sign up, that is a telling sign that most of people cannot find any proof that advertised service works.

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