Sure, ideally it should be considered a medical procedure on a living person in a critical condition
That would destroy cryonics companies who make money via insurance that depends on people legally dying.
Some of the major problems of cryonics can probably be solved by preventing water from expanding upon freezing.
What do you mean exactly? If I understood it right then vitrification is done to prevent ice crystals from forming. Do you mean something different?
That would destroy cryonics companies who make money via insurance that depends on people legally dying.
The insurance companies would have to alter their contracts. Ideally, whatever legislation classifies cryonics as a medical procedure would include a clause that for the purposes of any contract written before then, it counts as death.
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