Cryonics

[ciphergoth]

I'm considering signing up with the Cryonics Institute. Are you signed up? I'd be interested to hear your reasons why or why not. It does of course sound crazy, but when you press past that initial reaction to find out why it's crazy, I haven't heard a really satisfactory argument yet, and I'm interested to hear what people think. There are many reasons it might not work, but are there reasons to think it's really unlikely to work? How likely does recovery need to be for it to be worth it?

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Any more details you can provide would be very valuable in helping me decide. Most of the people who've really looked into this in detail are cryonics enthusiasts and disagree with your conclusion. If you know of anyone who's really given it a good look and came to the other conclusion I'd love to read more. Thanks!

[zotz]

I'll have a look about. The very vocal sources are from the various institutions, yes, but I'm not sure I'd say that they'd all looked into it in depth. Many of the accounts seem remarkable specious.