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It sounds like people are essentially donating their brains to (private) science, with the off-chance that they may come back.

The marketing thereof as something else doesn't sound quite ethical to me. It's downright ghastly if people are dying earlier because of this.



Nobody is making use of this service yet. However, if they were, why would it be ghastly for them to voluntarily trade a small number of days worth of terminal decline for a substantially better quality preservation and thus correspondingly higher chance of revival in the future? To me it sounds like an obvious utilitarian tradeoff, like any reasonable person who was well informed about the situation and averse to dying might choose to make.




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