Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some questions and answers pertaining to Cryonics

 

I want to arrange to be cryopreserved. Where do I start?

With a cryonics service provider.

British cryonicists tend to have signed up with either Alcor, Cryonics Institute or KrioRus. You can contact them directly via their own websites.

Additionally, if you want someone to walk you through it step by step, our own group Organiser will be more than happy to do so if you ask him: ds@cryonics-uk.com.


How much does it cost?

A cryonics contract itself can vary in price depending on one's cryonics service provider, and option chosen from said provider. It can be the equivalent of less than 50p a day for a very respectable deal. Even a homeless person could afford that!


How can I know it's not a scam?

Cryonics has been around for over thirty years now; you can tour the facilities, visit the patients in cryostasis, etc.


How can I know that it works?

You can't. You have a choice, though: you can try it, and maybe live and maybe die. Or you can not try it, and definitely die.


If you're not a cryonics service provider, what do you do exactly?

We are Britain's volunteer "Standby Assistance" team. We will accept into membership anyone who has a suspension contract with a provider. These members can then attend training to become part of the Standby Assistance team when qualified, and / or can pay a small fee to receive Standby Assistance without themselves being on the team.


What exactly is this "Standby Assistance"?

It's said that a friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body. That's part of what we do. If you are dying, we will arrive on the scene with equipment ready to get started as soon as you are clinically dead. We will attend to the administration of various medicines and intravenous fluids, and the initial cooldown, and in all ways prepare your body physically for shipping to your cryonics provider perfused with cryoprotectants and kept at a low temperature with dry ice. This is much better than you than dying and then having to cool yourself down, stop your own blood from congealing, and make your own way to the other side of the world.