Assumptions, Reality and Uncertain Future

Melody: “If well-funded organizations like Alcor and Suspended Animation would quit playing around and hire some professionals, I believe more people would sign up. Both those organizations can afford to hire professionals, yet they continue to pay laymen salaries in excess of those earned by medical professionals.”

These organizations cannot hire medical professionals for the simple reason that the people who finance and control them will never allow it. It they allowed it, they would lose control and would be pushed out. Cryonics is a highly specialized area of medical science. It should be managed by M.D.s, just as any other area of medicine. Is there a single hospital, or a clinic anywhere in USA that would not be managed by an MD? NO. Such situation would never be allowed to happen. Yet, all we see is that cryonics is being financed and managed by lay people without medical education, who never would be allowed to perform medical procedures in any other area of medicine.

I believe those are the main reasons why the public at large considers cryonics a quackery, if not an outright fraud, or even something resembling a “cult” of misguided. Many rich and famous people are well aware of the cryonics potential, but after researching the situation, they simply do not want to be a part of it. For obvious reasons, as stated above. It is quite clear that the cryonics business model is faulty, in sore need of change. Unless a drastic change occurs and medical doctors and medical professionals enter the field, cryonics will be limping along, on the verge of extinction. Just as it has been limping along, on the verge of extinction for the past 30 years. Despite ongoing huge cash infusions by lay, non-medical people who want to control cryonics.