Is cryonics illegal anywhere ?
The better question would be is it LEGAL anywhere?
It’s illegal in the EU…..
It’s illegal in Australia…..
It’s illegal in Canada….
and, it’s illegal in Nederland, but we can change that at any time.
It’s legal in the rest of the USA though.
Maybe South America….tho the catholics take a dim view of it.
Maybe Africa.
Probably legal in Antarctica, too…..not much choice sometimes.
The Canadian Province of British Columbia (BC) is the only state or province in North America with an anti-cryonics law. Section 14 of Bill 3 (2004) of the Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act of BC forbids the marketing of cryonics, but BC citizens are not prohibited from making arrangements with cryonics organizations outside of BC. And BC funeral directors are not prohibited from shipping cryonics patients to cryonics organizations outside of BC according to a clarification notice on the website of the British Columbia Business Practices & Consumer Protection Authority. (For more information about British Columbia’s anti-cryonics law, see my article British Columbia’s Anti-Cryonics Law.) In France a 1960s circular by the Ministry of Health prohibited the practice of cryonics. Cryonics was also declared illegal in the city of Nederland, Colorado, but the remains of the grandfather of Norwegian cryonicist Trygve Bauge is still stored there on dry ice − actually celebrated in
The Canadian Province of British Columbia (BC) is the only state or province in North America with an anti-cryonics law. Section 14 of Bill 3 (2004) of the Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act of BC forbids the marketing of cryonics, but BC citizens are not prohibited from making arrangements with cryonics organizations outside of BC. And BC funeral directors are not prohibited from shipping cryonics patients to cryonics organizations outside of BC according to a clarification notice on the website of the British Columbia Business Practices & Consumer Protection Authority. (For more information about British Columbia’s anti-cryonics law, see my article British Columbia’s Anti-Cryonics Law.) In France an April 1968 decree by Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, the Minister of Health, prohibited the practice of cryonics.
