Remote embalming and shipment for brain or whole body preservation with Sparks

(Cross-posted at the Sparks Newsletter ) Let’s imagine that you think that preservation after legal death with the goal of future revival may actually be able to preserve important information that you care about, such as long-term memories. Let’s also imagine that, unfortunately, you live far away from an organization that offers these services. In that case, especially if you die suddenly, the chances of having a preservation team get out to you in a timely manner (within But what about embalmers? Don’t they already pump aldehyde-containing solutions through the blood vessels of recently deceased people? And aren’t there already a bunch of them in lots of places in the world? Couldn’t they possibly do the initial preservation themselves, thus stabilizing the structure of the brain/body and thereby addressing one of the key problems related to access to preservation services? This topic has been a hotly debated one over the years in the field of preservation/biostasis/cryonics. Of course, I will not end the debate in this one essay. But what I will try to do is: (a) make the case that using the services of embalmers actually does make sense in some circumstances, and then (b) disc