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4 essays examining this part of cryonics history, practice, evidence, or possible futures.
People talk about cryonics like it is mainly a matter of belief. If you want it, you plan for it. If you do not, you do not. Simple story. Then reality shows up, wearing a badge, a legal clock, and a clipboard.
Today I keep circling the same question. When the law draws a hard line around “dead,” what happens to all the plans that assume time will behave like a suggestion?
I keep coming back to one plain thought: if I write down what I want, does that actually reach into the part of the world where grief turns into invoices, and paperwork turns into fights? It is easy to talk…
I keep coming back to one plain question: if someone signs up for cryonics, why can’t it start when the family stops hoping and starts bargaining?