Topic 2.1
Economics of biostasis
The gap between "this seems worth doing" and actually doing it is usually economic, not philosophical. This topic exists to make the financial reality legible enough that cost stops being an excuse or a mystery. The goal is to shift cryopreservation from something that sounds expensive and complicated into something with a clear price tag and concrete funding paths you can evaluate against your actual resources.
Whole-body vs brain-only preservation costTwo separate charges, not one: a recurring membership and a one-time preservation fee. The whole-body and brain-only figures, why brain-only costs so much less, and how the large number gets funded.Why does cryonics cost so much?Where the 200,000 EUR whole-body fee goes, using the published itemisation: 80,000 of procedure and 120,000 of storage. Why standby readiness is not in this fee, and why the number falls with scale rather than cost-cutting.Membership feesWhat the recurring membership fee buys: the monthly, yearly and lifetime options, the Lifespan Extension Program that comes with them, and why all of it is separate from the one-time preservation cost.General funding methodsThe realistic paths to funding a cryopreservation: term and whole life insurance, discretionary trusts, pre-payment, and why a Last Will is the one method we cannot accept.Term and whole life insuranceHow term and whole life insurance actually fund cryopreservation, why signing up young is dramatically cheaper, and how the two policies complement rather than replace each other.Why family-funded cryopreservation at death is riskyWhy leaning on relatives to pay for your cryopreservation at the moment of death is a fragile plan, and why pre-arranged insurance plus legal documentation is the robust alternative.Can wealth be preserved for use after reanimation?After legal death you own nothing, so how would a revived person have resources? Trusts, custody, diversified stores of value, and the post-scarcity case that none of it matters. Genuinely unsolved.