I vaguely remember some LessWrong users talking about contacting Pratchett and informing him about the possibility of cryopreservation. Did anyone try?
Since he’s already been afflicted with Alzheimer’s for some time, if he were going to have himself cryopreserved, it would have been better to do so much earlier.
True, but unless I’m misunderstanding how such things are regulated in Britain, he still can’t have himself preserved until he’s been declared dead, and MixedNuts has already addressed the issues with committing assisted suicide and then having himself preserved.
He isn’t killing himself in Britain, and your comment doesn’t make sense even if it is difficult or impossible to be preserved following a suicide. Best case its a moot point.
I vaguely remember some LessWrong users talking about contacting Pratchett and informing him about the possibility of cryopreservation. Did anyone try?
Can they do a stand-by at the suicide clinic? Has anyone done anything like this?
Since he’s already been afflicted with Alzheimer’s for some time, if he were going to have himself cryopreserved, it would have been better to do so much earlier.
That doesn’t really matter now, he has the same choice in front of him.
True, but unless I’m misunderstanding how such things are regulated in Britain, he still can’t have himself preserved until he’s been declared dead, and MixedNuts has already addressed the issues with committing assisted suicide and then having himself preserved.
He isn’t killing himself in Britain, and your comment doesn’t make sense even if it is difficult or impossible to be preserved following a suicide. Best case its a moot point.