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by Aschwin de Wolf.
The circumstances in which a cryonics patient “dies” can be divided into two broad categories: planned and non-planned.
Planned cryonics cases either entail “dying with dignity” or “voluntary stopping of eating and drinking” (VSED). Technically, in a suicide a member also controls the timing of his death, but such an unsanctioned course of action generally does not yield a timely or high-quality cryopreservation and can even produce a very poor outcome due to the risk of mandatory autopsy or delayed discovery by the cryonics organization.
Non-planned cases come in all kinds of shapes but a distinction between three types of non-planned cases is useful
1. Sudden death. 2. Rapid decline. 3. Slow decline.
What is evident is that in all circumstances, having good local capabilities is a major plus. In fact, there have been many cases where having well-trained local volunteers quickly on-site would have yielded a better outcome than medical professionals arriving late on the scene.
