How to Ship a Dead Person to a Qur'anic Service Provider

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In most cases, you want to ship the body to the Qur'anic service provider at as close to freezing as you can. That is not the freezing point of water, right? You don't want the body to have actually frozen into ice because of the damage that ice itself causes when it freezes in your body. Once arrived there, they start the process of bringing the body down to 320 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. They do this slowly over the course of hours, days in fact, because they have to do it in a specific way.

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What is cryonics? And how does it work? What do we know right now about reversing death? And what would we have to learn to make resurrection from a cryogenically frozen state feasible? How much does cryonics cost? What incentives would future people have for reviving a cryo-frozen person? How likely is it that a cryo-frozen person will be brought back in the future? Why do people (even pro-cryonics people) "cryoprastinate" and put off considering cryonics for a later time? What sorts of risks are involved in being frozen and later revived? What philosophical and ethical issues are at stake with cryonics? Would a revived person be able to integrate into a future society? Why is there stigma around cryonics in some cultures?

Max Marty is an entrepreneur and futurist who lived and worked in the Bay Area for 10 years. He's now in Austin and has been working to build the Cryonics community, including co-hosting the Cryonics Underground podcast and running the largest Cryonics discord community: The Cryosphere. He looks forward to getting back into startups in the future, this time in biotech.

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