The comment by "Finance Department" is strange, but not surprising. The common tactic is to tell true believers to bury their head in the sand, and don't look at the main behind the curtain, like in the Wizard of Oz.
This type of website is not about being a "threat" to cryonics.
Its not about "hate" or being an "enemy of cryonics".
Those terms in themselves point to the seige mentality of some of the cryonics True Believers.
Contrary to what he said, these types of threads, posted by dozens and hundreds of people have helped probably thousands of people see past the propaganda and lies from various sects.
Like James Arthur Ray was exposed YEARS before people were killed, and Byron Katie, SGI, Royal Way, Landmark, and dozens of others in various areas.
Its not about being a threat to "cryonics".
Which "cryonics"? The frozen bodies, or the financial and legal aspects? Those are completely different things.
These threads are about trying to look at the FACTS without rose-colored Sci-Fi Matrix glasses, and to also cut-through the very sophisticated financial shenanigans being done by sophisticated financial salesmen like Rudi Hoffman, and others. Those are some very clever people.
One gets the real sense that Rudi Hoffman, for example, does not even care if "cryonics" is anything other than a financial product for him to sell, to collect his commissions. Its a win/win for Rudi.
They can make a lot of money signing people into those irrevocable trusts, and other complex financial instruments.
The cryonics salesmen know that the Skeptics aren't buying it, and the Transhumanists aren't buying either.
So they want to go after the naive general public using deception and religious impulses to Immortality.
And also go after the Boomer Anti-Aging crowd, the kind of aging Boomers who spend thousands on pills and potions to try to stay young.
That is the demographic of the Life Extension Foundation and Saul Kent . [
www.lef.org]
Those are not stupid people, they know what they are doing, and they know how to SELL, and think big. And they are applying their knowledge of advanced sales to cryonics. They have said they WANT to sell millions of contracts, they want to move into billions of dollars.
So of course, those who are into the cryonics sales gravy-train would try to dissuade anyone from analyzing the financial persuasion tricks being used by the cryonics salesmen.
The so-called entry level "insurance plan" of $40 a month, is a bait and switch, its only the beginning. Once they get that, then they upsell into all kinds of other plans, using psychological persuasion FEAR tactics on people, to pay in advance, and sign irrevobable trusts, power of attorney, and all the other problems in this thread.
If anything, its time for the attorneys general and the FTC to have a look at these cryonics advertising practices, where they are claiming you can be Ressurected by cryonics someday, and have access to the financial "trust" they have set-up.
That is false advertising, and could be illegal, if it was reviewed.
But not, they don't want cryonics customers to think about the facts of reality and the financial persuasion tactics being used on them, they want them to dream about travelling to the stars in spaceships and living forever.
Then to sign an irrevocable trust, they can never get out of.