The Alternative to Bringing You Back

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You can write into your contract and everybody who signs up with Groundex has little details on their contracts that they may or may not want to share. They can write it in to the contract, don't bring me back unless and until X, Y or Z have taken place. The worst thing that could happen is, I think you just don't end up being brought back for whatever reason. But what's the alternative? The alternative is being eaten by the worms or burnt to a crisp in an incinerator, et cetera. Those alternatives seem, well, at least as bleak as the scenario where you never come back even though you hoped that you would.

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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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