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I'm guessing that cost is not the real issue. If it were, you could appeal to insurance companies to substitute cryonics for more expensive aggressive medical treatments at the end of life. (Note for example that medication for assisted dying is a covered benefit in Oregon.) It would make good business sense, as cryonics is less expensive than pursuing aggressive treatment. However first you would need to get doctors recommending it. For that to happen, you need them either recommending it as a medical method of increasing the patient's long-term survival chances, which I see as unlikely to fly (on its own) any time soon, or recommending it as an alternative to reduce suffering and cope with anxiety about death.

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That would be awesome. There's a practical barrier, though; how would the cryonic procedure get paid for? Health insurance won't cover it, and only the quite well-off would be able to afford paying for it outright instead of with a life insurance policy purchased in advance.

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