The founder of the company saying it's 100 percent fatal when the service claims the opposite outcome in the longer term isn't helping.
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Replying to @RitaJKing @Plinz
The substance they are using is fatal, yes. It's cheaper than traditional cryonics for a reason. The claim is that compared to freezing there would be less damage to the brain, too. Recreating the preserved "snapshot" of your brain is up to future technology.
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Replying to @manjola1990 @Plinz
I understand that but I can also understand how most people aren't getting past the headline.
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Replying to @RitaJKing @Plinz
It's not okay if that person is a journalist writing about it. That kind of reporting also does disservice to the people that just read the title. The hope is the title won't be misleading.
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Replying to @manjola1990 @Plinz
The title's most eye catching phrase is a direct quote from the company's founder.
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Replying to @RitaJKing @Plinz
I think the Tech Review article (which is fine in itself) was the source for the other articles that kept popping. Their content did distort the original article.
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It's best to start the process when the brain is fresh/alive, to minimize the damage. There is a lot of wishful thinking involved, as it is in trading all cryonics. Would future people care to revive us? What is being preserved, and how much?
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The company is open about the fact that you're signing up to die, and putting your faith in the future. They don't seem to be tricking people into suicide, as some articles claimed.
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Replying to @manjola1990 @RitaJKing
Obviously. And euthanasia is currently only legal when you have a terminal illness. And not even in Massachusetts, afaik. And I seriously prefer to die under anesthesia at a time of my choosing rather than drowning in liquid in my lungs or be poisoned by liver failure etc.
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Replying to @Plinz @RitaJKing
It could be that people aren't comfortable with that idea of assisted suicide. Or some interpreting it as profiting from people killing themselves.10k isn't even that much compared to freezing your head (30k) or full body (200k). A funeral (burial) in US costs at least 7k.
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Massachusetts canceled a proposal for a (very restrictive) law that would have allowed assisted suicide. People are in deep denial about death I think, because they are too afraid to look at it. That's why they don't have empathy with the dying, including their future selves.
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