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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[wight1984.livejournal.com]

Another issue just occurred to me, although it may have already been addressed somewhere.

The money paid is presumably just for the cryopreservation. Presumably it isn't to pay for the cost of revival (especially given that we don't know how much that might end up costing).

Who are we expecting to pay for this? (and the obvious carry-on questions; is it fair to expect them to and how reliable is it that they're going to?)