Hah, “Magic Click”—I see that all the time, people who don’t know cryonics is real-or have not met anyone actually signed up. Left and right, every day kids and adults think it is a “cool” idea, they express interest—but they don’t go through the steps to become a signed cryonicist. I’m not sure what causes one person to go through all the paperwork and another just thinks they might want to do that some day—from what I’ve seen, people who sign up for cryonics have had a brush with death and seem more motivated—it could come down to a person’s personality and their level of planning things in life too. Thank you for your comment bshock. Some religions could take the stance that you must be signed up for cryonics, because if it works then it is your purpose to do more good for your faith. I could imagine how frustrating it would be to work at Alcor, the paperwork truly needs to be simplified-but cryonics is not yet large enough to be safely accepted, they have to cover every angle possible that could come up. CI is a lot easier to sign up with paperwork, but they don’t have a higher success rate—I think that you are right-at first cryonics is fun because it seems like a way to escape death possibly, then finalizing it is acknowledging that you will die.
Hah, “Magic Click”—I see that all the time, people who don’t know cryonics is real-or have not met anyone actually signed up. Left and right, every day kids and adults think it is a “cool” idea, they express interest—but they don’t go through the steps to become a signed cryonicist. I’m not sure what causes one person to go through all the paperwork and another just thinks they might want to do that some day—from what I’ve seen, people who sign up for cryonics have had a brush with death and seem more motivated—it could come down to a person’s personality and their level of planning things in life too. Thank you for your comment bshock. Some religions could take the stance that you must be signed up for cryonics, because if it works then it is your purpose to do more good for your faith. I could imagine how frustrating it would be to work at Alcor, the paperwork truly needs to be simplified-but cryonics is not yet large enough to be safely accepted, they have to cover every angle possible that could come up. CI is a lot easier to sign up with paperwork, but they don’t have a higher success rate—I think that you are right-at first cryonics is fun because it seems like a way to escape death possibly, then finalizing it is acknowledging that you will die.