Since the main perceived (or real) threat seems to be to the social status of the family, along with participating personnel and experts, perhaps the answer is to be more generous with our praise towards those currently in stasis. They are pioneers from our time, after all.
The trouble with that is that they are expected to eventually be reanimated and may thus hear of this gushing praise one day. Imagine how awkward a funeral would be if the corpse could actually hear the sobs and kind words being spoken over them.
An alternate method of allocating the needed status towards cryonics could be to cultivate pride in the community itself. The issue there is that the community is still small and it could devolve into elitism.
Another possibility could be to house the dewars in some kind of monument, say a time capsule, with prominent displays of our cultural achievements to date. Perhaps the Timeship project is less frivolous than I thought.
As much as I might regret it, this idea is bizarre enough to me that I’d like to read more about it. Google doesn’t appear to turn up anything relevant, have you got a link?
Since the main perceived (or real) threat seems to be to the social status of the family, along with participating personnel and experts, perhaps the answer is to be more generous with our praise towards those currently in stasis. They are pioneers from our time, after all.
The trouble with that is that they are expected to eventually be reanimated and may thus hear of this gushing praise one day. Imagine how awkward a funeral would be if the corpse could actually hear the sobs and kind words being spoken over them.
An alternate method of allocating the needed status towards cryonics could be to cultivate pride in the community itself. The issue there is that the community is still small and it could devolve into elitism.
Another possibility could be to house the dewars in some kind of monument, say a time capsule, with prominent displays of our cultural achievements to date. Perhaps the Timeship project is less frivolous than I thought.
Actually, some people are into that kind of thing. There’s a whole subculture that fetishizes consensual, reversible death; it’s called ‘snuffie.’
As much as I might regret it, this idea is bizarre enough to me that I’d like to read more about it. Google doesn’t appear to turn up anything relevant, have you got a link?
these three stories seem to cover the basics.
All I’m getting is
Do they require a login? FurAffinity has had new user registration locked for a while, now.
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/alexreynard/ http://www.furaffinity.net/user/alfador/
Did you try bugmenot? It might have a login.
That’s a good idea—I should have tried it earlier, but I’ve never been one for bugmenot. Sadly:
Living funerals are not that unusual or awkward.
Depends what kind of living funeral we’re talking about...