Law of Cryonics

Pierre de Gioia Carabellese (PhD, LLM, PGCAP, CMI, CMgr, MA, JD) is Professor (full) of Banking and Financial Law in China (Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Commercial Law, Zhuhai campus, Hong Kong Area, 2022) and professorial Fellow of Advance HE (York, UK). He has been a Professor (full) of Business Law and Regulation in Australia (Edith Cowan University, 2020) and Professor (full) of Law in England (Huddersfield University, 2017). He is also a Solicitor (UK), Notary Public (Edinburgh) and Avvocato (Rome). Prior to that, Pierre was Assistant/Associate Professor of Business Law at HWU (Edinburgh), and Senior Advocate at Baker & McKenzie and In-house lawyer in banks (e.g. Deutsche Bank). He has been visiting professor/scientist in numerous institutions (e.g. Complutense and Leiden).Camilla Della Giustina is a PhD candidate in Law at Campania University, Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, and she holds a Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Padova Law School. She has published widely on bioethics and regulation. In the last two years, she has been a PhD visiting scholar at Heriot Watt University and Napier University (Scotland, UK). In 2023 she is visiting research fellow at Edge Hill University (England, UK). She is an Italian qualified lawyer (Avvocato) and author of 100 publications, including five books.

• 1 Introduction: the fashionable and freezing world of cryonics 11 Human cryoconservation 12 Cryonics in literature 23 The methodology 44 Strengths and weaknesses 55 Impact 62 Human cryopreservation 81 Cultural background 82 Medical and scientific approach 103 The legally dead man 144 Cryonics and law: an oxymoron? 185 The freezing trial: cryonics in the courtroom 206 Cryonics and financial issue: the cryonic trust 277 Cryopreservation agreements 393 The junk side of cryonics: the homo sacer 471 The global crises 472 The junk science 493 Bitcoin as a fund for cryonics 534 Junk finance: from (junk) bond to bitcoin 565 The junk humanity: the concept of homo sacer 606 From homo sacer to cryo-humanity 657 Cryonics and finance: the oxymoron of the future society 694 Cryothanasia as an opportunity during a scarcity of medical resources 761 Introduction 762 Euthanasia: a sweet death? 773 The challenges during Covid-19 814 Cryothanasia 844.1 The meaning of cryothanasia 844.2 Cryothanasia as a medical treatment 864.3 Cryothanasia as a way to manage in the NHS 875 The cost of a world without death 886 The sale and purchase agreement of life 945 From digital immortality to human immortality 1021 Introduction 1022 Digital immortality 1043 The human immortality: cryoconservation 1093.1 Before cryoconservation and during cryoconservation: patient or consumer? 1103.2 Who is the new being? 1134 After resuscitation, which scenario for the future of humanity? 1184.1 The law of cryoconservation 1194.2 The hybrid individual 1284.3 The wholly artificial being 1295 The life in a post-singularity world 132Conclusions 1411 Cryonics: the human ‘bubble’ 1412 The cryo-trust 1443 From health emergency to cryonics 1454 Cryolaw: the cryopatient and the cryobeing 148Index 153