First, let's get the freezing thing out of the way. Modern cryonics doesn't freeze, it vitrifies. Very important difference. The difference between freezing an

First, let's get the freezing thing out of the way. Modern cryonics doesn't freeze, it vitrifies. Very important difference. The difference between freezing and vitrification is clearly explained for the layperson in the Alcor FAQ: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/vitrification.html http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/vitrification.html http://www.alcor.org/FAQs/index.html http://www.alcor.org/FAQs/index.html Now here are a bunch of economics and cryonics thoughts: http://fightaging.org/archives/2009/06/cryonics-and-economic-incentives.php http://fightaging.org/archives/2009/06/cryonics-and-economic... "I note that the cryonics community, rather like the diverse libertarian community, possesses a sizeable minority with a great (and I think misplaced) belief in the power of contracts - of words on paper. You see it in the constitutionalists in the US or the fellows looking for loopholes in tax laws that will enable them to escape the IRS entirely. Words on paper, however, have only as much weight as there are economic incentives aligned with them." http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/01/you-cant-take-it-with-you.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/01/you-cant-take-it-... "The trouble with property left undefended, as the ancient Egyptians and every other culture that buried wealth with the dead has handily demonstrated, is that no-one else's interests are aligned with yours." http://fightaging.org/archives/2009/04/pastinate-everyone.php http://fightaging.org/archives/2009/04/pastinate-everyone.ph... "You might recall the recently voiced suggestion that it's something of an accident of history that the cryonics movement is the cryonics movement versus the plastination movement. Plastination is plausibly just as good a way of preserving the fine structure of the brain into a future where a patient can be restored to life as low-temperature storage."