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23 Post author: jaibot 21 August 2012 02:04PM

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Comment author: advancedatheist 21 August 2012 03:18:04PM 6 points [-]

I'd like to donate, but at the moment I may have to direct discretionary time and money towards saving Kim Suozzi:

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ydsy5/reddit_help_me_find_some_peace_in_dying_young_im/

The lack of interest in the prize puzzles me. Some very wealthy cryonicists want to tie up fortunes in speculative revival trusts, yet they depend on financially inadequate cryonics organizations to keep them in suspension against foreseeable adversities, and they seem uninterested in trying to improve the science of preserving their own brains. I don't understand this business model.

Comment author: V_V 21 August 2012 11:14:14PM *  2 points [-]

saving Kim Suozzi

saving?

and they seem uninterested in trying to improve the science of preserving their own brains

Maybe they don't want to spread the flour on the dragon