don’t want to “succeed” at cryonics but then wake up for 1000 years of guilt that I didn’t help my family “win” too. If they don’t also win, when I could have helped them, then what kind of a daughter or sister would I be?
You can’t hold yourself responsible for their decisions. That way lies madness, or tyranny. If you respect them as free agents then you can’t view yourself as the primary source for their actions.
It might be rational to do so under extreme enough circumstances. For example, if a loved one had to take pills every day to stay alive and had a tendency to accidentally forget them (or to believe new-agers who told them that the pills were just a Big Pharma conspiracy), it would be neither madness nor tyranny to do nearly anything to prevent that from happening.
The question is: to what degree is failing to sign up for cryonics like suicide by negligence?
You can’t hold yourself responsible for their decisions. That way lies madness, or tyranny. If you respect them as free agents then you can’t view yourself as the primary source for their actions.
It might be rational to do so under extreme enough circumstances. For example, if a loved one had to take pills every day to stay alive and had a tendency to accidentally forget them (or to believe new-agers who told them that the pills were just a Big Pharma conspiracy), it would be neither madness nor tyranny to do nearly anything to prevent that from happening.
The question is: to what degree is failing to sign up for cryonics like suicide by negligence?