And please forgive me if this is a RTFM kind of thing.
I’ve been reading LW for a time, so I’ve been frequently exposed to the idea of cryonics. I usually push it to the back of my mind: I’m extremely pessimistic about the odds of being revived, and I’m still young, after all. But I realize this is probably me avoiding a terrible subject rather than an honest attempt to decide. So I’ve decided to at least figure out what getting frozen would entail.
Is there a practical primer on such an issue? For example; I’m only now entering grad school, and obviously couldn’t afford the full cost. But being at a very low risk of death, I feel that I should be able to leverage a low-cost insurance policy into covering such a scenario.
How exactly do I go about acquiring a cryonics insurance policy, especially when I am still in school (undergrad American university)? What if I live with my parents and they do not support cryonics?
Actually, how does one go about acquiring any specific form of insurance policy?
Have you tried to see what Alcor.org might say? Such a practical primer seems like the sort of thing a cryonics organization might write. (Crazy, I know...)
How to cryonics?
And please forgive me if this is a RTFM kind of thing.
I’ve been reading LW for a time, so I’ve been frequently exposed to the idea of cryonics. I usually push it to the back of my mind: I’m extremely pessimistic about the odds of being revived, and I’m still young, after all. But I realize this is probably me avoiding a terrible subject rather than an honest attempt to decide. So I’ve decided to at least figure out what getting frozen would entail.
Is there a practical primer on such an issue? For example; I’m only now entering grad school, and obviously couldn’t afford the full cost. But being at a very low risk of death, I feel that I should be able to leverage a low-cost insurance policy into covering such a scenario.
I have essentially the same query.
How exactly do I go about acquiring a cryonics insurance policy, especially when I am still in school (undergrad American university)? What if I live with my parents and they do not support cryonics?
Actually, how does one go about acquiring any specific form of insurance policy?
Have you tried to see what Alcor.org might say? Such a practical primer seems like the sort of thing a cryonics organization might write. (Crazy, I know...)
Yeah, I didn’t look hard enough. So I’ll leave this here.
Dear people from the future, here is what I have found so far:
http://alcor.org/BecomeMember/scheduleA.html http://alcor.org/BecomeMember/sdfunding.htm
Though, if anyone was in a similar position and would like to share, I’d still love to hear about it.