I say this about relatively few people, especially women, but from what I've learned about Kim, I feel that I approve of her.
Secular, science-oriented, self-interested, passionate about doing something controversial to try to survive, and apparently non-promiscuous. (The last appeals to the Dark Enlightenment conservative in me.)
I wish I had a girlfriend like her when I went to college.
I would have wanted the time to get to know her better. Perhaps I will if we both make it to The Other Side.
You asked elsewhere why this seems to have been down voted. This seems seems easy to explain. People are treating this as death, though we might prefer to tag this as "suspension" and like with all deaths there are sacred feelings. You then proceeded to implicitly violate a taboo of modern sexual sacredness feeling. This was enough for a patter match to your post being offensive.
Some people may just find commenting about the sexual lives of deceased people and your opinions on them distasteful, which is ironically a cached intuition that their c...
Kim Suozzi was a neuroscience student with brain cancer who wanted to be cryonically preserved but lacked the funds. She appealed to reddit and a foundation was set up, called the Society for Venturism. Enough money was raised, and when she died on the January 17th, she was preserved by Alcor.
I wasn't sure if I should post about this, but I was glad to see that enough money was raised and it was discussed on LessWrong here, here, and here.
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Edit: It looks like Alcor actually worked with her to lower the costs, and waived some of the fees.
Edit 2: The Society for Venturism has been around for a while, and wasn't set up just for her.