I hope you don’t mind, I’ve copied your message to the New Cryonet mailing list. This is an important issue for the cryonics community to discuss. I think there needs to be a system in place for collecting donations and/or interest to pay for equal access for those who can’t get life insurance. There are a couple of cases I’m aware of where the community raised enough donations to cover uninsurable individuals for CI suspensions.
While my personal case is obviously important to me (it is my life after all), it’s important to me in a more general sense—a lot of people are talking on this site about various ways to fix the world or make it better, yet they’re often not members of the groups who’ve had to pay the costs (through exploitation, marginalization or just by being subject to some society-wide bias against them) to get it to where it is now.
I hope you don’t mind, I’ve copied your message to the New Cryonet mailing list. This is an important issue for the cryonics community to discuss. I think there needs to be a system in place for collecting donations and/or interest to pay for equal access for those who can’t get life insurance. There are a couple of cases I’m aware of where the community raised enough donations to cover uninsurable individuals for CI suspensions.
I don’t mind.
While my personal case is obviously important to me (it is my life after all), it’s important to me in a more general sense—a lot of people are talking on this site about various ways to fix the world or make it better, yet they’re often not members of the groups who’ve had to pay the costs (through exploitation, marginalization or just by being subject to some society-wide bias against them) to get it to where it is now.