What deserves cryocide?
So being signed up for cryonics shifts my views on life and death, as might be expected. In particular, it focuses my views of success on the preservation of my brain (everything else too, just in case, but especially the brain). This means, obviously, not just the lump of meat but also the information within it. If I'm suffering a degenerative disease to that meat or its information, I'm going to want to cryocide to preserve the information (and the idea of living through slow brain death doesn't thrill me regardless). What I don't know is: given the current state of science, what sorts of things do I need to be worried about? In particular, I'm wondering about Alzheimer's; does it appear to be damage to the information, or to the retrieval mechanism? But any other such diseases interest me in this context. Thanks! -Robin
I'm interested in theory, but in practice I am attached to living in SF proper that may be hard to overcome.
I'll mention that in South Bay there are housing complexes that have multiple nearly-adjacent units in shared space, and it might work well to just pick such a complex and progressively have like-minded people take over more and more of it. Noticeably less awesome, but also noticeably easier.