You are not just betting on the techincal possibility of survival through cryonics. As others have said you're betting on the social, economic, political circumstances of every date between now and your putative resurection. Including the survival of the relationship between the insurers and cryonics, the UK and the US, the funeral directors, your executers (who can legally just decide to not do it once you're pronounced dead) and your own economic circumstances of being always able to pay an increasing life insurance premium right up to your death.
And if you get through that you're betting that all the research to make some kind of resurraction possible will happen without a) them experimenting on your remains and b) too many other people in the world getting frozen as it gets more likely to work creating a last in first out scenario, or a legal change to stem the overpopulation, or a Niven-esque organ harvesting future or or or.
Yes, I think the idea is mad. As a fish. An atheist fish having a mid life crisis. With knobs on.
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Date: 2010-01-21 01:16 pm (UTC)And if you get through that you're betting that all the research to make some kind of resurraction possible will happen without a) them experimenting on your remains and b) too many other people in the world getting frozen as it gets more likely to work creating a last in first out scenario, or a legal change to stem the overpopulation, or a Niven-esque organ harvesting future or or or.
Yes, I think the idea is mad. As a fish. An atheist fish having a mid life crisis. With knobs on.