Cryonics

[ciphergoth]

I'm considering signing up with the Cryonics Institute. Are you signed up? I'd be interested to hear your reasons why or why not. It does of course sound crazy, but when you press past that initial reaction to find out why it's crazy, I haven't heard a really satisfactory argument yet, and I'm interested to hear what people think. There are many reasons it might not work, but are there reasons to think it's really unlikely to work? How likely does recovery need to be for it to be worth it?

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Re: This is going to get sticky isn't it?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I think you ask in good faith and I promise I'm trying to answer in the same spirit, but there's something about your question I don't get. I don't think it's anything that most people don't feel: I like being alive and if I was told it would end tomorrow I'd be upset.

Re: This is going to get sticky isn't it?

[djm4]

I think I get less upset about this sort of thing than many people. But even given that, I don't think either of us is the sort of person to say 'I get upset' without having a bit of a poke at 'why, logically, should it be upsetting?'

Incidentally, if I were told I had a choice between my life ending tomorrow, and my life ending in three years after a great deal of pain and suffering, I'd be very tempted to take the former. It wouldn't be a straightforward choice; ideally I'd want to know more about any upsides of staying alive for those three years. But simply 'not being dead' wouldn't be enough of an upside to swing it for me.