I tried to replicate the supercooled fast water freeze with an ordinary ice box freezer, but I failed. I know, that such a freezing is possible, but I am not sure if on the videos they say everything necessary, or there may be other important things for that, that they don't say. Why not we all try to replicate the fast water freeze with a plastic bottle of water and the home freezer.
No despair... thinks just aren't adding up for me. I think we all come to cryonics in despair and then it wears of or we realize just how speculative it is and begin to question the legitimacy of it all. This is what everyone else does and those who subscribe to cryonics most often think of others as stupid for not wanting it. That means it takes a certain kind of person to get interested in it and then you have the people who believe they are doing some form of good by creating a farce to distract people from actually accomplishing a goal. I think that's what most people understand of cryonics and I really want cryonics and believe in it and want to see it work. There is an entirely legitimate reason to have cryonics for all and I'm not sure if it's being given a chance to exist. There is always a reason not to try something, not to do something...
Now let's take a look at the question you asked. "How is cryonics paid for now?"
Cryonics is most commonly paid for with something you pay for but never see and can rarely benefit from. Something that's made for someone else to benefit from. People buy life insurance to take care of their families if they die before doing everything they wanted to accomplish and to spare them from poverty. Yet they make cryonics available to even the poor by saying you can just get life insurance. Can you see a sacrificial lamb (would be cryonicists and immortalists) being exploited here? Right now you either have to pay in advance or use life insurance and maybe a combination of other things. But I couldn't leave my house or annuity alone to a cryonics company... I can't pay for cryonics entirely with something I can benefit from or live off of in the mean time. In otherwords, I'm taking on a measure of austerity to buy into cryonics. The life insurance policy I was going to buy was going to cost me $161k in payments and pay out as much as $2.5M upon my death. But that's money I'd never see if I'm dead and rotting in a hole and money that could have amounted to much more had I invested it or bought something with relatively stable value.
There is also the real possibility of bringing the cost down to $5k yet it's like a unicorn cause we'll never have 11 million people to get it set up that way and the companies don't seem to be interested in pursuing such a thing. Maybe it's because $5k won't go very far or maybe there aren't 11 million people b/c the mass majority is happy to have fake cryonics as a distraction and find living forever to be a moral hazard according to their way of life.
What does it look like when you try to solve all the problems?
You have understood very well the psychology of the cryonicists. Yes, we all go to cryonics from despair. How it was the word "It is the second bad thing, that may happen to us", right? And when we learn more, we start to question, correct. Maybe it is a part from our biology to do so. And also those who subscribe to cryonics most often think of others as stupid for not wanting it. I am an example lol.
Cryonics is really payed for something you don't see, but if it manages to bring you to the distant future, when you will be immortal,you will be able to benefit from it.
If you have $161 k for the life insurance, then you will have enough money for whole body cryopreservation in the Cryonics Institute, so the life insurance strategy really seems illogical in this case. I also want to make the cryonics cheaper, it simply is out of my power (at least at the moment).
If all things come together, it shows a despair driven strategy with an uncertain outcome. Really it is suspicious for a hoax.
I think, that the correct thing we should do is to start scientifically developing the cryonics, and to make it work. Fast, before we to die.