And in our culture, the mere image of frozen bodies in a fridge has more disgusting connotations than happy ones.
But I'm not sure that frozen bodies in a fridge is more disgusting than rotting corpses in a casket.
I'm not completely sold on the cryogenics idea though. The main thing I don't understand is what incentive does anyone have to keep me plugged in after I passed away? It would seem that unplugging me would be the easiest thing to do. I'm already dead, I'm not producing anything of value, and not paying you anymore--why not unplug me at the least inconvenience? Lets say there's an earthquake or a tornado in the area, it would be easy enough to say that this was the reason why the bodies were lost. It would always make more sense to people to save the living rather than the dead.
But I'm not sure that frozen bodies in a fridge is more disgusting than rotting corpses in a casket.
Right, but people are used to rotting corpses in a casket. So they don't think about that when they think burial. They think of pleasant-looking graveyard with pretty flowers.It is precisely the uncommon nature of cryonics that causes one to think about what it looks like.
The main thing I don't understand is what incentive does anyone have to keep me plugged in after I passed away?
Well, most of the people running cryonics organizations are themselves ...
So, apparently appsumo is having a custom reddit bundle, a bundle meant to appeal to redditors, and 10% of the proceeds get donated. On the surface, doesn't sound _that_ interesting, except...
Take a closer look: http://appsumo.com/reddit-special-deal/ and find that the recipient of the donations will be... SENS!
I find this to be an interesting development. It wasn't the "custom transhumanist bundle" or "the custom sens bundle" but "the custom reddit bundle". Yes, "reddit" doesn't, in and of itself, count as extremely mainstream as such, but I'd say it's still an interesting development.