I'm glad to hear the suspension went smoothly. I hope to congratulate Robert in person someday.
At first I was surprised, but if it's the number frozen rather than the number signed up, it doesn't seem wildly off.
Alcor have about the same number, KrioRus 15, so about 227 total worldwide. About two thousand people are signed up.
There are other services, but I think they all only have a handful of members between them, bringing the total up to less than two thousand.
That's stupid. I'd sign up for cryonics, if my identity could only be instantiated in biological hardware now.
Glad to hear he went into stasis under good conditions. This probably increases the chance that he can be repaired with nanotech/biotech rather than being scanned to a digital substrate. (He always hated the idea of being uploaded.) Congratulations on a good start to your trip through time, Robert.
Ben Best: Robert Ettinger deanimated today at around 4pm Eastern Time. He was under hospice care and had an ice bath sitting by his bedside.
Obituaries: Mike Darwin, Washington Post, Telegraph
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