I can't find the post I found yesterday even with several searches today but I recall a post yesterday where I saw that JSparks provides for hospice for a few hours before natural termination of biolife of the patient. Even though he admitted it was highly unpredictable which it is, his gigantic facility can only provide a few hours of hospice. Now this is going to be a problem for gluteronics based cryonics/AI-reanimation aside from my own current quantumonics position where the mind is not actually IN the brain but is a quantum field projected TO the brain like a TV picks up a broadcast signal. One thing at time, today the 2 hour hospice.
I see JS has 5 locations. That's a lot of money involved in that and this, despite a 2 hour hospice. In my opinion, he would have done better to have a 2 year hospice-retirement-residence for retiring cryos who could go down in style surrounded by cryofriends. It could have been a separate business like a cryonics motel. Models for this were Steven Valentine's Timeship, Dave Pizer's Ventureville, and Jimmy Buffet's Retirement Center in Florida. Well, maybe not Jimmy Buffet's place but sort of like that, but for cryos.
Bill Faloon has the Church of Perpetual Life but it's a standalone building in a parking lot in a residential neighbourhood with no body of water, meadow or tree. He has a separate location for another type of headquarters that I haven't looked at for some time that might be the beginning of a true cryonics resthome but I can't find my file on that right now. I forget what he called it. There are several buildings on the lot but I'm not sure any can be lived in by a community of cryonicists, which is an oxymoron I know.
There have been a lot of configurations both in physicsl space and in corporate organization over the years of cryonics entities but I don't think the right combination was ever achieved. I think cryonics danced around all of them but they never hit the sweet spot that, say, the new Muslims of Texas have, who created domed mosques and a community all in one so successfully that people are concerned Texas could become Islamic now. Somebody in Muslimism knows what they're doing and cryonicists like JSparks & co. might want to look into their setups.
REWRITE as if a letter to the editor
Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to a discussion regarding hospice accommodations within the cryonics community and to raise a broader point about long-term care infrastructure. While an online forum provides a valuable venue for exchange, the lack of a comprehensive topical index can make it difficult to relocate prior threads and source material.
I recently encountered a post indicating that one major provider, operating five separate facilities, offers only a few hours of hospice care prior to legal death. The author acknowledged the inherent unpredictability of timing, yet the brevity of this window raises significant concerns. For protocols that depend on prompt stabilization and preservation, whether approached from a conventional neurobiological framework or from alternative theories of consciousness, a two-hour hospice capability appears insufficient to ensure optimal conditions.
Given the substantial capital investment represented by multiple facilities, one might ask whether resources could be more effectively allocated toward a long-term residential hospice model. A dedicated retirement residence for members approaching the end of life would allow individuals to live in community with peers who share their values and commitments. Precedents for such integrated communities have been proposed in various forms, including concepts such as Timeship, Ventureville, and age-restricted retirement villages that combine housing, amenities, and shared purpose.
Other organizations have established freestanding chapels and headquarters, but these structures are often isolated buildings without the residential, natural, or communal environment that would support an extended end-of-life community.
To date, the cryonics movement has experimented with numerous physical and organizational configurations, yet it has not achieved a durable synthesis of community, care, and purpose.
There may be instructive models outside the field. For example, certain faith-based communities in Texas have successfully integrated places of worship, housing, and communal life into a cohesive development. Their ability to create a self-sustaining community has been notably effective.
Leaders in cryonics would do well to study how such communities are planned and governed.
A more comprehensive hospice and residential strategy would better serve members and strengthen public confidence in the field's long-term vision.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Reader
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