[Link] How doctors die

ER personnel know this so well that they go to great lengths to ensure it doesn't happen to them

Minor quibble, just saying something like “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.” does not constitute 'great lengths'. Depending on tone and context it may not even be meant seriously, and if it is its still not a lot of effort to put towards to goal of not ending up in intensive care.

At least we know croynics promoters tend to take their own medicine.

The success rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (measured as survival until discharge) is about 10% in the US, much higher than the quoted person's experience of <1%. (I'm not sure if this figure counts all arrests or only arrests that make it to the ER; since survival is lower for arrests that don't make it to the, 10% may be an underestimate depending on what's counted and what's not).

I wonder if it's possible to get cryonics as a form of euthanasia. I would suspect that it would be easier to wake you up if you were alive when you were frozen.

Not upvoted because it the post title uses the article title when the article title was a poor description of the article content. Editors/authors choose titles that poorly match article content for many reasons, most prominent of which is sensationalism, so links listed here should do better and accurately describe articles' content.

Than you for the link. See also many Overcoming Bias Robin Hanson posts on signaling.

Is it the same in France? Isn't this part of the reason the US spends twice as much on health care as France?

I suspect that this is the bigger obstacle to cryonics, not so much e.g. the lack of scientific proof. "Freeze me cheaply instead of spending insane amounts of money on brutal attempts at keeping me alive" sounds like a sensible thing to tattoo on your chest, but the evidence suggests that it wouldn't be honored any more than "DNR" tattoos.

If anything, I think that signing up for cryonics is considerably lower status than a personal refusal to be resuscitated. Refusal to be kept alive through extensive medical intervention at a low quality of life or with poor prospects for success is widely viewed as respectable, whereas supporting a policy of not attempting resuscitation for others is widely regarded as immoral.

Learning about this (several years ago) has caused me grievous emotional harm. I feel like I am surrounded by people who would happily torture me at no direct increase in utility to themselves and that it is illegal not to mention considered insane for me to protest this. In my mind it is summarized as "I am afraid of death, therefore I will torture people who are dying."

Has anyone else had this response to learning about how medicine currently works?

I wish the article had explained in more detail what is so awful about these medical interventions. What kind of misery, caused specifically by what treatments.