just one point to clarify, is that it seems this thread was started as a cryonics whistleblower thought there was some cult-like activity going on in the cryonics business.
There are a lot of serious questions about cryonics, and companies like Alcor.
After looking at some of what is going on, it does appear that what is being said is correct, and is cause for very serious concern.
One of the main concerns seems to be surrounding the body/corpse, and the money.
One can see that cryonics companies are using emotive persuasion techniques on their customers, to SCARE them about all the horrible things that can happen to them, like family members burying them, etc.
That is the set-up to get them to sign over large life insurance policies to the cryonics company. One logically assumes that part of this persuasion package is going to be the Power of Attorney, as a person can lose their faculties near the end of their life. So the cryonics companies try to get that power, to make sure their "customer" is not taken from them, by a spouse, or family member. (they have info about, living wills, conservator, guardian, executor, power of attorney or medical surrogate, etc)
So then you have a cryonics company, with legal powers over a dying person, and the dying person could have a life insurance policy paying out in the millions to the same cryonics company.
One can be sure they also try to convince people to turn over their entire estates to the cryonics company, to "care for the body" in the future.
So one frozen body could be worth 2 million easily, plus much more for the estate.
So what if they get in the position where a person loses their faculties, and is on life support for months or longer? Then are the cryonics people hanging around the bedside?
What if a cryonics fanatic decides to speed nature along, and perform a type of euthanasia by injection? (search for: Dora Kent murder).
On top of this, an article said Alcor claimed over 700 clients? So that could easily be 1.5 BILLION dollars in life insurance payouts right there. On top of that are some rich folks who give massive estates to Alcor.
So this is a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
Wouldn't it also make sense for the cryonics company to talk people up into higher life insurance premiums, just "to be safe"? They could use the same scare tactics for that.
They know that once they have the body, and power over the remains, and the money from the policy, then NO ONE CAN EVER SEE THE BODY AGAIN.
Not the family.
No one can have access to what is happening to the money either. That is all secret too.
So if the body were to go "missing" no one can ever know, because its all secret.
So if someone turns over millions to care for their body, once their are dead, there is no oversight. The body could be discarded after a decade or so, and no one can ever know.
Alcor has detailed information pages about...
Life Insurance, Term Insurance, Whole Life Insurance, Universal Life Insurance, Prepaid - Cash or Equivalent, Trusts, Alcor Standard Trust, Special Trusts, Annuities, and many many other things.
Conclusion: this is ultimately multi-billion dollar body-snatching.
They know perfectly well cryonics doesn't work, and can't work. But its not about that anymore. Its about pushing things along far enough, so they can get those millions and billions rolling in. And they have fought their critics so viciously, as they don't want oversight, as that would force them to spend all that money only on keeping the freezers running.
This is a massive multi-billion dollar swindle on the upswing.
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