It seems like to have breakthroughs in both getting down the cost on Cryonics as well as researching the proper way of freezing tissue with out destroying it in the process that large amounts of dollars would need to be expended.
To get research dollars allocated to cryonics a case for it's need would have to be made.
Borrowing from science fiction:
1: One use for Cryonics would be deep space exploration.
2: Another could be cryonicly suspending death row inmates to both reduce cost and to allow for the resusitation if our science ever advances to the place where they could be treated for whatever mental condition they have that caused them to commit violence in the first place. Or we perhaps would choose to resusitate them on some far off planet that we wanted to colonize. Similar to how the British colonized Australia. The cost for keeping maximum security prisoners is very high. I would suppose cryonics would be much less expensive.
3: Another would be to suspend patients with currently incurable diseases.
4: And the current and only legal reason that the person has already died and some day we may be able to bring them back.
Are there any other reasons we could add to this list?
Are there any research institutes currently doing active cryonic research today?