Some people identified so deeply with their current social situation, the idea of losing that situation (family, friends, standing, culture, etc.) was unthinkable.
What’s the connotation of that? That they’re deplorably irrational, or that ardent Cryonicists are weirdly asocial?
Waking up in a future society, where you don’t know anyone, yours skills are useless, etc, is equivalent to exile, which is generally considered a punishment.
Exile is only a punishment because it is worse than staying at home. When the alternative is being dead, most people will take exile, as demonstrated by refugees from war zones.
What’s the connotation of that? That they’re deplorably irrational, or that ardent Cryonicists are weirdly asocial?
Waking up in a future society, where you don’t know anyone, yours skills are useless, etc, is equivalent to exile, which is generally considered a punishment.
Exile is only a punishment because it is worse than staying at home. When the alternative is being dead, most people will take exile, as demonstrated by refugees from war zones.
Who stay with their families and compatriots.
If they can. And with enough signed up, the same may be true of those taking the long sleep.
But there is nothing they can do to exert any control over that.