Cryonics -- buying extra time?

[Longinus]

I think it's lesser known in Europe than in the States, but I was wondering what the opinions are about cryonics.

Personally, I find it interesting. What do you have to lose if you die? It's relatively cheap IF one day scientists will be able to transplant your brain or whatever. Buying extra time, isn't that what we all want?

I think if you can organise this (and in Europe, there are not such installations yet), it's fastlane: start with crowdfunding, sell life insurances, make cheaper formulas, ...

Who's in?

 

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[Longinus]

OK, does nobody know what cryonics are or does nobody care ?

 

[jon.a]

OK, does nobody know what cryonics are or does nobody care ?

Don't care. Reality is just a state of mind anyway.

 

[Lex DeVille]

I think it's lesser known in Europe than in the States, but I was wondering what the opinions are about cryonics.

Personally, I find it interesting. What do you have to lose if you die? It's relatively cheap IF one day scientists will be able to transplant your brain or whatever. Buying extra time, isn't that what we all want?

I think if you can organise this (and in Europe, there are not such installations yet), it's fastlane: start with crowdfunding, sell life insurances, make cheaper formulas, ...

Who's in?

This is available in Europe through a company called Eucrio. It's available in the United States through a very small handful of companies. I'm a Cryonicist through Cryonics Institute, and fund my contract through life insurance. United States contracts are available for European members also.

More Cryonics organizations are launching in the U.S. with a new one opened in the last year or so in Oregon.

The only way it can be Fastlane is if you can get people to realize they might have a choice when it comes to life and death. The problem is, this is even harder than opening slowlaners to the fastlane. The mentality is that "Death has never been overcome before and therefore it cannot be overcome in the future." This is clearly flawed logic (though the whole world doesn't think so) in that it assumes an absolute about the future which can't possibly be known.

If you really want to go Fastlane, you may want to consider fields dealing with reverse aging (which is about to become a massive industry in the next year or so ((in my opinion)), and/or biotech. Cryonics is a last ditch effort that relies on the chance scientists may one day be able to revive our bodies, or conscious minds.

Nobody will care about Cryonics until science or technology proves it's possible to live longer, in younger, healthier bodies, or until someone is brought back from death. The first time someone is revived...

Then everything changes.

 

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[Michał Kóska]

They tried to revive many years ago, see below. They even did it to one human being but stopped when he started to move his eyes.

 

[7.62x51]

We need to figure out how our minds work before we can solve the death problem.