The Law of Cryonics

1 Introduction: the fashionable and freezing world of cryonics 1

1 Human cryoconservation 1

2 Cryonics in literature 2

3 The methodology 4

4 Strengths and weaknesses 5

5 Impact 6

2 Human cryopreservation 8

1 Cultural background 8

2 Medical and scientific approach 10

3 The legally dead man 14

4 Cryonics and law: an oxymoron? 18

5 The freezing trial: cryonics in the courtroom 20

6 Cryonics and financial issue: the cryonic trust 27

7 Cryopreservation agreements 39

3 The junk side of cryonics: the homo sacer 47

1 The global crises 47

2 The junk science 49

3 Bitcoin as a fund for cryonics 53

4 Junk finance: from (junk) bond to bitcoin 56

5 The junk humanity: the concept of homo sacer 60

6 From homo sacer to cryo-humanity 65

7 Cryonics and finance: the oxymoron of the future society 69

4 Cryothanasia as an opportunity during a scarcity of medical resources 76

1 Introduction 76

2 Euthanasia: a sweet death? 77

3 The challenges during Covid-19 81

4 Cryothanasia 84

4.1 The meaning of cryothanasia 84

4.2 Cryothanasia as a medical treatment 86

4.3 Cryothanasia as a way to manage in the NHS 87

5 The cost of a world without death 88

6 The sale and purchase agreement of life 94

5 From digital immortality to human immortality 102

1 Introduction 102

2 Digital immortality 104

3 The human immortality: cryoconservation 109

3.1 Before cryoconservation and during cryoconservation: patient or consumer? 110

3.2 Who is the new being? 113

4 After resuscitation, which scenario for the future of humanity? 118

4.1 The law of cryoconservation 119

4.2 The hybrid individual 128

4.3 The wholly artificial being 129

5 The life in a post-singularity world 132

Conclusions 141

1 Cryonics: the human 'bubble' 141

2 The cryo-trust 144

3 From health emergency to cryonics 145

4 Cryolaw: the cryopatient and the cryobeing 148

Index 153