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Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival

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55 points arielzj | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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michaelt ◴[08 Dec 25 22:48 UTC] No.46198721[source]▶
When it comes to cryopreservation the thing I find infeasible is the idea a provider would bother with the preservation, under the incentives of capitalism.

If someone pays millions of dollars to a company that promises to freeze their corpse for 200 years, the company can simply freeze the corpse for a decade or two, take the millions of dollars as dividends and executive bonuses, then declare bankruptcy. The dead can't sue.

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1. jewel ◴[09 Dec 25 00:08 UTC] No.46199539[source]▶
The way I think you'd set this up is you'd create a trust with the millions and then the trustees would pay the company its monthly fee from the trust's funds.

With enough funds, the trust should be able to both pay for your preservation and grow its balance. You'd even be able to inherit the remaining funds when revived.

Of course in practice there is still the possibility of the trustees being corrupt.