What is Cryogenics?

It’s easy to give examples of the rapid development of medicine in recent decades. Just 100 years ago, appendicitis was a deadly condition. Today, it is treated with a simple operation lasting just a few minutes. The operation is a primary element in all surgeons’ training. In the last 100 years, life expectancies have nearly doubled. The achievements of modern medicine would be unimaginable for past generations.

Many remain optimistic about the future development of medicine. That’s how there appeared the idea of freezing a patient’s body after death by illness or accident. The hope is that in the future, medicine will develop such that doctors are able to thaw and heal the body and return it to life.

Our mind and all our memories - what was once called our ‘soul’ - is in fact nothing more than the structure of our brain and all the information it contains. Today, with the existence of CT scans, I can easily imagine a scanning procedure so detailed that it could be used to transfer a sick person’s mind to a new body, even when their old body has been frozen for many years. I am convinced that over time it will become not only a possibility, but a standard medical procedure.

Current consensus

Cryogenics has been based on one fundamental assumption - the people subjected to the process must be dead. You can’t simply show up at a cryogenics company and say ‘please freeze me.’ That’s because we haven’t fully developed the technology to freeze and thaw people. At the moment, ‘please freeze me’ also means ‘please kill me.’

This approach is fundamentally incorrect. It simply makes no sense, for example in the situation of a terminally ill patient who expects to live for a few more weeks. They’re going to die anyway. It’s better to die under controlled conditions and start the hibernation process immediately.

Reanimation

Thawing and reanimation will likely be performed by doctors not yet born. Brains must be frozen carefully, so as not to destroy them. There are two major problems:
- Ice crystals. When freezing the body, the water in the cells changes from a liquid to a solid, expanding to form ice crystals. This causes the cell to burst, destroying it. Destruction of brain cells in turn leads to loss of information. We’re learning to address this problem by replacing body fluids with mixtures which prevent the formation of ice crystals. It is also important to control the speed of the freezing process.
- Passage of time. It’s easy to understand why the time between death and freezing should be as short as possible. We know that it is sometimes possible to resuscitate someone who has technically died, whose breathing and blood circulation have stopped. This is what is called ‘clinical death.’ However, if blood circulation stops for more than a few minutes, the brain suffocates and dies. That’s why it would be best cryogenic purposes if death occurred under controlled conditions, when we’re prepared for it, and when the cryogenic process can start immediately.

Unfortunately, all cryogenics companies dismiss this critical problem. Patients are often stored in the ice for hours or even days before being frozen. The problem often lies with the legal system, for example when an autopsy is required after death. When a body begins the hibernation process hours or days after death, the chances of reanimation are slim.

Euthanasia

Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering. We believe that every mentally healthy adult should have the right to end their life when their pain and suffering become too unbearable. Cultural changes have made euthanasia more socially acceptable in Western societies. Moreover, as societies grow older, the number of people considering euthanasia is growing rapidly. Modern medicine prolongs life, but also extends the period of old age and progressive disability. Once fatal diseases are not chronic. The growing population of sick and suffering people will increasingly force societies and legislators to allow euthanasia. This will lead to further acceptance of euthanasia.

Interestingly, the question of the legality of euthanasia exposes a great deal of hypocrisy among politicians and their constituents. Legislators don’t want to support legalization of euthanasia in its classic form, that is, one last injection administered to the patient. They have a vision of ‘Dr. Death,’ healing patients one minute and ending their lives another. They believe this could undermine confidence in the medical profession. Some fear that the elderly will be euthanized - that is, killed - against their will. In addition, there is the opposition of religious fundamentalists.

Therefore, the concept of ‘assisted suicide’ was invented. First, doctors determine whether a given person is actually suffering. A doctor then writes a prescription for certain pharmaceuticals, which is followed by death. Assisted suicide differs from euthanasia in that the patient must take the drugs themselves, whereas the doctor and others simply witness the process (assist).

As we aren’t hypocrites, we‘ll stick to the concept of euthanasia for our need for end-of-life control.

Financing

All existing hibernation services companies take a 19th century approach to business. Those interested in such services are told that ‘we can provide such a service, but you need to arrange life insurance financing with company X, and arrange the transport of your body with company Y.” It’s as if McDonald’s sold you fries and told you to buy ketchup at the corner store. Without a modern approach to business, there lacks a comprehensive approach to patient needs.

Clients need a comprehensive offer for one monthly fee. This fee should cover the company’s current operating costs plus life insurance premiums. At the time of death, whether as a result of illness, accident, or euthanasia, life insurance is redeemed. The compensation covers the costs of body transport, freezing, storage, and subsequent reanimation.

Of course, clients with sufficient financial means can pay the whole amount in advance. In that case, monthly payments may be reduced (without insurance premiums) or eliminated (the costs of hibernation, transport, and administration are paid in advance).

Capital security

We expect it will take decades to master the process of thawing and reanimating patients. Who knows, perhaps people will remain frozen for 100 years. The financial assets supporting their hibernation and eventual reanimation must also be safely frozen. It’s good for the patient to have some resources with which to start their new life.

The problem is that by the time a patient is reanimated, the global monetary system may have changed. Combined with its use of a fiat currency, the enormous debt of the United States may lead to bankruptcy, hyperinflation, and the collapse of the dollar. All financial instruments based on or denominated in dollars will then be worthless. That means that all financial instruments in which cryogenics institutions store patient assets may also be worthless.

The only known method of securely freezing capital is gold. Gold has maintained its purchasing power for 5,000 years, and it will probably do so for another 5,000 years. As we know, the purchasing power of the dollar started to erode after the gold standard was abandoned.

That’s why it’s crucial to hold a significant portion of your capital in gold, outside the United States, where it could be requisitioned by the Federal Government (as happened in 1934).

Just as the assets will be protected from the government, they must also be protected from employees and management. Asset storage must be outsourced to a reputable company and regularly audited. Access must be strictly regulated, making it possible only to deposit additional bullion, with assets collectable only when individual people are reanimated.

It’s worth finding employees who themselves are interested in hibernation. In that way, they’ll be more interested in the project’s success.

Location

The key is to minimize the distance between where you die and where you’re hibernated. This limits the time for the transport team to collect and transport the patient and reduces the legal problems associated with transport between jurisdictions. Long distances mean high costs, problems, and lost time.

Cryogenics is the most advanced in the United States. If possible, the patient should die as close to the hibernation facility as possible, meaning in the United States. That’s why we’re only interested in the legality of consciously ending your life in the United States.

Medical aid-in-dying is legal in the American states of Colorado, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Montana.

The market leader in cryogenic services, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, is located in Scottsdale, AZ. The closest large city in a state that legally allows you to end your life in Palm Springs, in California. That’s 287 miles from Scottsdale, or 4 hours by car.

Another leader in the field is the Cryonics Institute in Clinton, Michigan. The closes place you can legally end your life in in Vermont. The distance from Clinton, Michigan to Burlington, Vermont is 746 miles, or 12 hours by car. It would be faster to travel through Canada, but the legal complications involved with transporting the patient via Canada would increase the transport time rather than shorten it.

It would be reasonable to open a local office in a state which permits euthanasia in order to conduct the entire process. The patient’s body would then be processed at that facility, including the replacement of bodily fluids and the freezing process. Only then would the patient be transported to the central cryogenics facility, where it would be put in a deep freeze (-320 F)

Mainstream

Cryogenics is not very popular. For some reason, the vast majority of people prefer to die definitively and irreversibly. This includes religious followers who believe in resurrection after death. I am convinced that resurrection is possible, but based on science, not on God.

All those who have been or want to become cryogenics patients have had to make some intellectual effort. They’ve had to rethink their own death and discover that dying itself does not equal the ultimate end of life. They’ve had to research companies and organizations, organize financing, and plan their own death. You could say that cryogenics are niche services targeting an elite group of people.

The organizations that provide such services have to decide whether this will remain the case, or whether they will marker their services to a wider range of citizens, for example by advertising cryogenics services in mass media.

Entering the mainstream will speed up scientific work on both the freezing and reanimation processes. Organizations will have greater financial resources to employ more staff, open more facilities, increase marking activities, etc.

Personally, I prefer the feeling of belonging to a small and elite group, because I’ve gone through the process of discovering cryogenics myself. However, I expect that with the passage of time, cryogenics will become more and more mainstream. This may happen as a result of scientific process in thawing and reanimating people. If people see that it’s really possible to reanimate people, they might consider hibernation for themselves. This might also result from new companies entering the market, focused on profit and rapid development. Currently, the cryogenics market is dominated by non-profit organizations whose management boards should realize that the market may soon undergo dramatic changes, which would have the effect of marginalizing them.

About the service

My name is Adam Slomski, MBA and this is my website I'm 42 years old, and I’ve owned and operated a bullion dealer for many years. I specialize in business development and launching new ventures. I consider myself an early adopter. I founded an ISP in 1997 and started exchanging bitcoin for gold in 2013.

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