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I see a couple problems with your proposal, Reason. One, cryonics organizations have a poor record of handling money, unlike most long-established insurance companies like New York Life. I wouldn't trust a cryonics society to provide both insurance and suspensions because your money could literally disappear just before you need it. And I say this as a long-time cryonicist and observer of the situation.
Two, if you have more than one cryonics service provider, and the one you've currently made arrangements with gets into some kind of trouble or otherwise proves unsatisfactory, you can more easily switch arrangements to a different organization paid for with an insurance policy provided by an outside company.
Marco Da Silva's idea of soliciting famous people for free cryosuspensions also sounds dubious. Famous people on average, unless they drew attention to themselves from accomplishing something useful, have little more going for them than the people you see standing in line at the liquor story waiting to buy lottery tickets. Some cryonicists regret not getting to freeze Timothy Leary, for example, but why him? Talk about making heroes out of the wrong people!
[Posted by: Mark Plus at July 15, 2008 8:02 PM]
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