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[Cyberbrain]

What are the restrictions (red tape) of becoming a cryonics member?

If someone has AIDS, or Cancer, or Diabetes, etc, could they be cryogenicly frozen or by contract is this person too sick to be frozen?

Is there any case in which Alcor and such could refuse to freeze a patient?

[forever freedom]

What are the restrictions (red tape) of becoming a cryonics member?

If someone has AIDS, or Cancer, or Diabetes, etc, could they be cryogenicly frozen or by contract is this person too sick to be frozen?

Is there any case in which Alcor and such could refuse to freeze a patient?

I don't think so, since cryonics goal is to "transport" people to a future where they can be cured, from any disease they currently have.

[bgwowk]

What are the restrictions (red tape) of becoming a cryonics member?

Look up the membership pages of the major cryonics organizations

http://www.alcor.org

http://www.cryonics.org

If someone has AIDS, or Cancer, or Diabetes, etc, could they be cryogenicly frozen or by contract is this person too sick to be frozen?

Since the law requires that your heart stop before you are cryopreserved, not only can you be sick, but you must be so sick that you die according to present medical criteria. The cryopreservation process itself also inflicts damage much more severe than any pre-existing illness.

Is there any case in which Alcor and such could refuse to freeze a patient?

Yes, this happen all the time to people who aren't members and whose relatives try to get them cryopreserved after they are too sick to arrange for it themselves. I don't know of any refusals to cryopreserve members with finances in order, although theoretically highly infectious diseases could reduce quality of care due to staff hazards or rules imposed by authorities on disposition of bodies during epidemics.

If you want to keep your options open, the most important thing you can do now is buy lots of life insurance for cryonics before you get older and develop medical conditions that make insurance unaffordable. This happens to almost everyone during or past middle age.

Edited by bgwowk, 01 February 2008 - 03:55 AM.