Damn. Ralph Whelan, a former cryonicist and Alcor employee in the early 1990's, died in his sleep the other day at age 46, and his parents plan to bury him conventionally.
Apparently he wore his Alcor bracelet, but he let his funding lapse.
That sucks. I knew him slightly back then, and I hadn't talked to him for years.
What's the probability you put on cryonics actually working well enough to resurrect the deceased under scenarios of: medicine of 10 years from now, medicine of 20 years from now, just go ahead and assume a Friendly superintelligence?
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