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[YOLF]

According the article link posted below, the cost of end of life care in '97 was about $26,000. It is no doubt much higher today. With the cost of full body preservation being about $28K through CI, why not establish a standard for predicting death that allows people to opt for cryopreservation rather than spending the last year of their life in pain? Of course we would want to re-animate some animals from full cryopreservation first to prove the technology, but I imagine it is very possible with enough experimentation and could generate significant revenues for cryonics companies as well as save lives, not to mention saving money considering the cost of re-animation must be at least a few $1000s cheaper by now. Wouldn't it be possible to lobby medicare/medicaid for this option?

http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC1282187/

[Mind]

Yes, lobbying would help, legal challenges would help. It all boils down to archaic laws and regulations. You can do pre-mortem cryonics because it is illegal, it is considered suicide, assisted or not (dumb, I know, but that is the current world we live in).

Keegan Macintosh gave a good talk about the legal aspects of this at Alcor40