Who is most likely to buy into Cryonics?:
Just about everyone has a fantasy about immortality, especially the young at heart. Anyone with lots of money, and who perhaps doesn't necessarily accept the inevitability of death, would be an ideal candidate for deep-freeze. For any would-be flatliners, right now the possibility of reviving cryogenically frozen corpses is entirely within the realm of science-fiction. It could take hundreds of years or forever before we have the technology to revive the frozen dead. Then again, in previous centuries, who could have foreseen the development of such things as cars, airplanes, radio, television, and nuclear power, among other things. One thing for sure, anyone who has their head severed before deep-freeze is very unlikely to ever be brought back to life. Once the neck is broken, and the spinal cord is severed, death is instantaneous.
The cost of Cryonics: (as of the late '90s)
It generally costs around $30,000 just to freeze one's head, and it would probably cost at least $100,000 to preserve an entire body. These prices don't take inflation into account, of course. (to be cont'd)
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