Transhumanism

Philosophy·Founded 1998 CE

Transhumanism → 1 branch

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Rite of Transhumanism

Signing up to be frozen.

It is paperwork, not a ceremony: membership, a life insurance policy assigned to the provider, and a bracelet so the standby team is called in time. It is nevertheless the one thing transhumanists do that costs money every month and marks them out.

⏱ Once in a lifetime, arranged years in advance◌ Individuals; a few thousand people worldwide have arrangements
What happensJoin a cryonics organisation, take out a life insurance policy naming it as beneficiary, sign the paperwork, and wear a bracelet or tag so that the standby team is called the moment you are declared dead
What it needsMembership dues, an insurance policy, and legal death occurring somewhere reachable
What it aims atTo convert death from an event into a pause, on the bet that a later century can finish the job
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this rite is held

This is the closest transhumanism comes to a rite, and its interest is that it is entirely administrative. There is no ceremony: you become a member of a cryonics organisation, fund the arrangement with a life insurance policy naming the organisation as beneficiary, sign the legal paperwork, and wear a bracelet or necklace so that the standby team is notified the moment legal death is declared. The procedure must begin within minutes to be worth attempting, which means practical success depends on dying in a foreseeable way in a reachable place — a fact the organisations state openly. No mainstream scientific body regards revival as demonstrated, and the providers themselves present it as a bet on future capability rather than a service with an outcome. It is included here because it is the one commitment that shows up in a transhumanist's monthly bank statement, and because it occupies structurally the position that burial rites occupy elsewhere on this site.

The same ground, other faiths

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