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passive_fist comments on Non-standard cryo ideas - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: DataPacRat 09 November 2013 05:42PM

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Comment author: passive_fist 09 November 2013 08:43:56PM 1 point [-]

The idea of preserving an animal body alongside oneself is interesting.

Archiving a video of your cryopreservation probably wouldn't be very useful as preservation techniques are already highly documented.

Comment author: DataPacRat 09 November 2013 09:31:51PM 0 points [-]

The documents of a particular cryo organization are separate from, for example, the personal drawer a a Cryonics Institute member can arrange for. A few cryo organizations have passed by the elwayside while their patients have been passed to other groups to keep cold; it's not impossible that a cryo org's records of the methods of preservation may be lost or corrupted while an individual's personal copies remain intact. Adding a video record on top of the standard records seems to be unlikely to help directly, but it may help remind the people involved to make extra copies and backups of the relevant info.

Then again, I could be wrong.