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Comment author: magfrump 06 October 2010 06:55:06PM 0 points [-]

Anyone in the world can walk up to you and say "I'll give you one hundred quadrillion utiles."

A cryonics organization also shows you that there are others who trust them, demonstrates some scientific feasibility for the process they're carrying out, and demonstrate that it is serious enough for at least one life insurance carrier to deal with it.

These seem like very different situations to me.