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Camping vs Cryonics
Assuming that a cryonicist a) has a limited budget; b) believes that going solo hiking, canoeing, and camping have salutary effects on mental health; and c) believes that camping provides one of the best available ratios of improved long-term mental functioning to dollars spent...
... then what measures could said cryonicist take to minimize the odds of ending up not just dead, but warm-and-dead? And, secondarily, how much would each such measure cost, and how much would it reduce that risk?
Example 1: A PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) costs around $300, and uses satellites to signal search-and-rescue teams to start looking in roughly an area a mile around. Requires someone alive to push the button, that the PLB can be placed right-side-up. Benefits are increased if, eg, a pen-type flare launcher can more precisely identify location to searchers.
Example 2: A backup cell phone can cost $20, and at least one provider offers service for $10 for the SIM chip and $20 per year if no calls are made. Requires limiting trips to areas within range of cell towers.
What about analysis of how to lower the risks of the hiking, camping, and canoeing that you want to do? Or have you pushed that aspect as far as it's likely to go?
I'm open to any suggestions on that front.
For example, my existing kit already includes bear bags to keep tempting food away from the campsite, anti-bear pepper spray, a "bear banger" shot for the flaregun... and I've just added those "QuikClot" rapid-coagulation sponges to the first-aid kit.
I was thinking about choosing terrain and temperature and such.
Do you know specifics about the risks of camping?
That's a fairly open-ended question, and I'm not sure how to answer. One version or another of the "SAS Survival Handbook" has been in my library for a couple of decades, which seems to offer a good overall framework.
It's open-ended because it's an area that I don't know much about. When I thought about how a person could end up dead from camping, the first thing I imagined was twisting an ankle after a stumble a steep hill, and not being able to get back to civilization. Add more trouble, and I imagine a fall down a steep hill, maybe with a concussion. (Yes, I have issues about falling.) However, I don't know if those are the biggest risks.
Possibly of interest: Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
I currently have "http://www.amazon.ca/The-Unthinkable-Survives-Disaster-Strikes/dp/0307352900" http://www.amazon.ca/The-Unthinkable-Survives-Disaster-Strikes/dp/0307352900 in my to-read pile, and that looks like a good companion piece.