As a sort-of aside, I honestly don’t see a lot of difference between “when I die is fine” and just committing suicide right now. Whatever it is that would stop you from committing suicide should also stop you from wanting to die at any point in the future.
An important reason for not dying at the moment is that it would make the people you most care about very distraught. Dying by suicide would make them even more distraught. Signing up for cryonics would not make them less distraught and would lead to social disapproval. Not committing suicide doesn’t require that one place a great deal of intrinsic value in one’s own continued existence.
I think if the only reason you’re staying alive is to stop other people from being sad, you’ve got a psychological bug WRT valuing yourself for your own sake that you really need to work on, but that is (obviously) a personal value judgment. If that is the only reason, though, you’re right, suicide is bad and cryo is as bad or worse.
I imagine that such a person will have a really shitty life whenever people close to them leave or die; sounds really depressing. I can only hope, for their sake, that such a person dies before their significant other(s).
An important reason for not dying at the moment is that it would make the people you most care about very distraught. Dying by suicide would make them even more distraught. Signing up for cryonics would not make them less distraught and would lead to social disapproval. Not committing suicide doesn’t require that one place a great deal of intrinsic value in one’s own continued existence.
That’s a really good point.
I think if the only reason you’re staying alive is to stop other people from being sad, you’ve got a psychological bug WRT valuing yourself for your own sake that you really need to work on, but that is (obviously) a personal value judgment. If that is the only reason, though, you’re right, suicide is bad and cryo is as bad or worse.
I imagine that such a person will have a really shitty life whenever people close to them leave or die; sounds really depressing. I can only hope, for their sake, that such a person dies before their significant other(s).
-Robin