We will do only high quality, regulated, scheduled preservations and don’t offer emergency services. I think people who have existing emergency arrangements should keep them and use them if they need emergency services. We’re not competitive in that sense.
I do think it makes sense to put a rider on your insurance policy so you can access the money earlier and pay for a planned preservation, and if you happen to need emergency services to instead use that money for emergency services.
In the long run I hope that the entire tradition of end-of-life care will change and people will consider scheduled preservation to be a critical part of end-of-life planning. Eventually I hope that emergency preservation that can meet our high quality standards is invented and deployed in every ambulance and hospital in the world, by popular demand. To get there, we’re offering what we can right now that will meet our quality standards, and that means pre-scheduled.
Fair enough. I’ll be honest, though, sorting out all the details seems complicated, especially when I already am set up for one thing (Alcor) that’s much better than nothing. Given I expect many of your best potential customers are in the same situation, finding a simple solution that integrates with existing cryonics providers is likely a strong way to grow your customer base, and I hope you pursue it.
I think it’s entirely possible that more streamlined paths for transition will end up being built as the company matures. In the meantime, I think some of the details may actually be easier than you’re imagining (e.g. the insurance rider is a lot simpler than it sounds), and we’re certainly happy to walk people through the process as necessary.
We will do only high quality, regulated, scheduled preservations and don’t offer emergency services. I think people who have existing emergency arrangements should keep them and use them if they need emergency services. We’re not competitive in that sense.
I do think it makes sense to put a rider on your insurance policy so you can access the money earlier and pay for a planned preservation, and if you happen to need emergency services to instead use that money for emergency services.
In the long run I hope that the entire tradition of end-of-life care will change and people will consider scheduled preservation to be a critical part of end-of-life planning. Eventually I hope that emergency preservation that can meet our high quality standards is invented and deployed in every ambulance and hospital in the world, by popular demand. To get there, we’re offering what we can right now that will meet our quality standards, and that means pre-scheduled.
Fair enough. I’ll be honest, though, sorting out all the details seems complicated, especially when I already am set up for one thing (Alcor) that’s much better than nothing. Given I expect many of your best potential customers are in the same situation, finding a simple solution that integrates with existing cryonics providers is likely a strong way to grow your customer base, and I hope you pursue it.
I think it’s entirely possible that more streamlined paths for transition will end up being built as the company matures. In the meantime, I think some of the details may actually be easier than you’re imagining (e.g. the insurance rider is a lot simpler than it sounds), and we’re certainly happy to walk people through the process as necessary.