compatible with normal funerals, so dramatically lower spending of weirdness points and religious objections. I think this means it can scale about 2oom more than cryo at least.
I couldn’t quickly find the percentage of open casket funerals, but let’s say it is half. If we take the extreme case that right now cryonics is only adopted by people with families who would prefer a non-open casket funeral, then maybe that doubles the market? I think the main religious objections are that you are playing God, the soul doesn’t go back into the body, etc. Also, the MAiD requirement would cause a lot more religious objection. And in reality, many cryonicists sign up even if their relatives would prefer open casket. So I think the market would increase less than 100%, let alone 10,000% due to these factors.
It’s not both of these problems—either you do whole body cryopreservation (no decapitation) and no body at the funeral at all, or you do neuro preservation and you can have the rest of the body cremated and present at the funeral.
I couldn’t quickly find the percentage of open casket funerals, but let’s say it is half. If we take the extreme case that right now cryonics is only adopted by people with families who would prefer a non-open casket funeral, then maybe that doubles the market? I think the main religious objections are that you are playing God, the soul doesn’t go back into the body, etc. Also, the MAiD requirement would cause a lot more religious objection. And in reality, many cryonicists sign up even if their relatives would prefer open casket. So I think the market would increase less than 100%, let alone 10,000% due to these factors.
I don’t think it’s direct considerations but literally the ick of decapitation and no body at the funeral at all
It’s not both of these problems—either you do whole body cryopreservation (no decapitation) and no body at the funeral at all, or you do neuro preservation and you can have the rest of the body cremated and present at the funeral.