I’ve just been looking on the web, and as far as I can tell, there are no cryonics services currently available in the U.K. On top of that, I’m over 50 and have no life insurance (by deliberate choice, because I have no dependents). I think it would cost me a great deal more than a dollar a day to assure my preservation, beginning with emigrating to another country and finding employment there to finance preservation costs in the region of $100,000. Or alternatively, helping to set up such services here, which would also involve large amounts of time and money.
Quite a lot of us are not from the U.S. I’d be interested to know the state of cryonics facilities in other countries.
Also, a real commitment to cryonics surely involves a lot more than just taking out membership and arranging the finance for the big day. You would presumably want to ensure that wherever you go, you have a plan for a suspension team to reach you if you drop dead, and never go anywhere too far out of reach. No backpacking trips to the wilderness, no travel to less developed countries, etc. U.S. people signed up: what additional steps do you take to ensure that your trip to the future is not merely paid for, but actually happens?
Transmetropolitan has a tragic story about a wife and husband team of investigative journalists (born slightly before you) who signed up together. The wife died of a heart attack, saying “I’ll see you in the future,” but then the husband died in a third-world dirt country. His last words were, “If you people had learned to clean your toilets...” Her revival was heart-breaking.
I’d like to second Mr Kennaway’s question about any international information. I’m in Soviet Canuckistan for now, and I haven’t been able to root anything up. Presumably the Cryonics organizations would have that sort of information on a website, that maybe one of you is familiar with?
The cost depends very much on where you live.
I’ve just been looking on the web, and as far as I can tell, there are no cryonics services currently available in the U.K. On top of that, I’m over 50 and have no life insurance (by deliberate choice, because I have no dependents). I think it would cost me a great deal more than a dollar a day to assure my preservation, beginning with emigrating to another country and finding employment there to finance preservation costs in the region of $100,000. Or alternatively, helping to set up such services here, which would also involve large amounts of time and money.
Quite a lot of us are not from the U.S. I’d be interested to know the state of cryonics facilities in other countries.
Also, a real commitment to cryonics surely involves a lot more than just taking out membership and arranging the finance for the big day. You would presumably want to ensure that wherever you go, you have a plan for a suspension team to reach you if you drop dead, and never go anywhere too far out of reach. No backpacking trips to the wilderness, no travel to less developed countries, etc. U.S. people signed up: what additional steps do you take to ensure that your trip to the future is not merely paid for, but actually happens?
Transmetropolitan has a tragic story about a wife and husband team of investigative journalists (born slightly before you) who signed up together. The wife died of a heart attack, saying “I’ll see you in the future,” but then the husband died in a third-world dirt country. His last words were, “If you people had learned to clean your toilets...” Her revival was heart-breaking.
I’d like to second Mr Kennaway’s question about any international information. I’m in Soviet Canuckistan for now, and I haven’t been able to root anything up. Presumably the Cryonics organizations would have that sort of information on a website, that maybe one of you is familiar with?
There is a Cryonics Society of Canada. If you mean that you knew about them and that site doesn’t contain the necessary info, then I dunno.