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.
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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