Cryonics, 32

Mankind's greatest fear is death. Humans instinctively attempt to preserve life, while others seek to explain it. We use religion, supernatural ideologies,magic, memorials, funeral and mourning rituals to make sense of it all. However the real question is whether these processes somehow theoretically extend and preserve life? While most of the world chooses cremation or burial rituals for their dead, other options exist. 

For a mere $200,000 you can just barely get through the door with Alcor Life Extension Foundation's bare-minimum package, the Whole Body Preservation Cryopreservation. Where directly after dying the member/patient/client is frozen via a process called cryonics involving liquid nitrogen. The objective is to freeze and preserve the body until medicine and technology advance far enough to revive them. Currently Alcor has 979 members, 122 frozen clients, and is predicted to grow. Alcor claims that one in four of its clients resides in San Francisco, where the same can be said for Scientologists in Los Angeles. It may seem odd to keep frozen bodies in the desert, but Alcor choose Scottsdale Arizona, not because it is near Area 51 and this entire thing is an alien conspiracy but Scottsdale is the safest place in the United States, free from natural disasters, crime, it has an international airport and an a Friendly's, favorable weather, and there is a large group of retirees, 

While others might think $200,000 is costly, it's fairly affordable given how long it might take for technology and medicine to advance and administrative costs. The interesting fact is that any unused capital is then invest in the Patient Care Trust managed by Bernie Madoff and the Lehman Brothers, just kidding Alcor's finances more honest than services they provide. This is a legitimate financial venture where Alcor's net-assets are estimated between 7 and 11 million. Where regardless if you never get revived, Alcor is going to manage your share until the world ends. 

Is this healthy? What makes people believe and buy into this? What makes people so sure they can bring people back to life, and what makes people so sure they want to come back to life? Will they be needed and wanted? Will they bring any value? Will they want to know the new world? Or will they forever long for something that once was? Vanilla Sky a reinterpretation of Abre los Ojos depict this perfectly, "You can do whatever you want with your life, but one day you will know what love truly is. It's the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet."