Valid points. The continuity of the Catholic Church had a lot more interruptions after the last anti-Pope. And your point about functional interruptions of old businesses is quite relevant since cryonics patients aren’t going to survive just off a surviving brand name. I think you may be overestimating the amount of time it will take for cryonics to work, but I haven’t thought about the time-frame that hard.
If you had Catholic Church style cryonics orgs, interruptions wouldn’t be so bad—you could build vast (dare I say cathedral-sized?) underground cryonics graves with excess volume & boil-off times measured in years or decades. You could analogize to libraries: books decay and need active protection and fires are risks, but can go a few years without (probably) being destroyed. The Church has succeeded in some very long-term libraries.
Valid points. The continuity of the Catholic Church had a lot more interruptions after the last anti-Pope. And your point about functional interruptions of old businesses is quite relevant since cryonics patients aren’t going to survive just off a surviving brand name. I think you may be overestimating the amount of time it will take for cryonics to work, but I haven’t thought about the time-frame that hard.
If you had Catholic Church style cryonics orgs, interruptions wouldn’t be so bad—you could build vast (dare I say cathedral-sized?) underground cryonics graves with excess volume & boil-off times measured in years or decades. You could analogize to libraries: books decay and need active protection and fires are risks, but can go a few years without (probably) being destroyed. The Church has succeeded in some very long-term libraries.
This would work if one has enough people actually signing up for cryonics. As long as very few people are doing so, it isn’t an option.