#20: I agree that avoidance of thinking about death is a powerful factor in people ignoring or rejecting even considering cryonics/biostasis. It takes time to even partly accept the inevitability of your own death. Then cryonics comes along as tells you there is a chance -- only a chance and of unknown probability -- that you can put off death indefinitely. Religion does so much better because it (falsely) promises certainty.
#8 Worth noting this was in people with familial Alzheimer's with specific mutations, which is a very small proportion of all patients. I wouldn't be surprised if it works well for them, but fails to generalise to most cases.
#13 Oh good to know! Sadly extremely relevant to me, particularly as spring is almost upon us in the Southern Hemisphere.
#20: I agree that avoidance of thinking about death is a powerful factor in people ignoring or rejecting even considering cryonics/biostasis. It takes time to even partly accept the inevitability of your own death. Then cryonics comes along as tells you there is a chance -- only a chance and of unknown probability -- that you can put off death indefinitely. Religion does so much better because it (falsely) promises certainty.
#8 Worth noting this was in people with familial Alzheimer's with specific mutations, which is a very small proportion of all patients. I wouldn't be surprised if it works well for them, but fails to generalise to most cases.
#13 Oh good to know! Sadly extremely relevant to me, particularly as spring is almost upon us in the Southern Hemisphere.