Another excellent article by Max More outlining the revival possibilities and options, and encouraging all serious cryonicists to be explicit and direct in their revival instructions. While I think I am fine with a virtual uploading of whatever constitutes "me" I just asked my wife and she is not. I suspect that even those of us who are pretty serious about their cryonics and have cryonics trusts funded with serious assets have not been as precise and explicit as we could/should be about our revival preferences.
The next time I meet with our Cryonics Estate Planning Attorney Peggy Hoyt, I'm going to go over these provisions to see if wife/life partner Dawn and I can be crisp and clear about revival preferences. And then get these instructions to Alcor so they are part of my "Red Book Files."
Let's get serious about our planning for Cryonics, people! Thank you, Max, for this detailed article. I confess I find myself drawn to think on and work on other things...ANY thing else...because doing serious thought about revival possibilities seems so abstract and "hand-wavey" and academic. But we need to encourage each other to be precise and clear about what we want in life as well as in and after our "dewar nap" in cryostasis.
Planning is not easy or natural, but it is our superpower as hyper-evolved apes and we must use it.
Another excellent article by Max More outlining the revival possibilities and options, and encouraging all serious cryonicists to be explicit and direct in their revival instructions. While I think I am fine with a virtual uploading of whatever constitutes "me" I just asked my wife and she is not. I suspect that even those of us who are pretty serious about their cryonics and have cryonics trusts funded with serious assets have not been as precise and explicit as we could/should be about our revival preferences.
The next time I meet with our Cryonics Estate Planning Attorney Peggy Hoyt, I'm going to go over these provisions to see if wife/life partner Dawn and I can be crisp and clear about revival preferences. And then get these instructions to Alcor so they are part of my "Red Book Files."
Let's get serious about our planning for Cryonics, people! Thank you, Max, for this detailed article. I confess I find myself drawn to think on and work on other things...ANY thing else...because doing serious thought about revival possibilities seems so abstract and "hand-wavey" and academic. But we need to encourage each other to be precise and clear about what we want in life as well as in and after our "dewar nap" in cryostasis.
Planning is not easy or natural, but it is our superpower as hyper-evolved apes and we must use it.
Rudi Hoffman