Larry Niven’s 1970s stories about “corpsicles” discuss a couple situations in which cryonics patients might be stripped of legal rights and mistreated after death. Beware of fictional evidence, and all that.
My personal con re: cryonics actually comes from the opposite direction, though. I like living in part because I can do (small) things which improve the world and because my mind is relatively unique. But a world in which society has a combination of technology, wealth and altruism sufficient for reviving cryonics patients en masse is less likely to need me to help it or to bolster my mental demographic. Unless I come into unexpected wealth, I’d prefer to spend discretionary money on things that improve the odds of creating such a world (savings for emergencies and my kids’ education, charities, “buying” free time for less-remunerated research, etc) rather than on buying a ticket just to enjoy it after it’s here.
Larry Niven’s 1970s stories about “corpsicles” discuss a couple situations in which cryonics patients might be stripped of legal rights and mistreated after death. Beware of fictional evidence, and all that.
My personal con re: cryonics actually comes from the opposite direction, though. I like living in part because I can do (small) things which improve the world and because my mind is relatively unique. But a world in which society has a combination of technology, wealth and altruism sufficient for reviving cryonics patients en masse is less likely to need me to help it or to bolster my mental demographic. Unless I come into unexpected wealth, I’d prefer to spend discretionary money on things that improve the odds of creating such a world (savings for emergencies and my kids’ education, charities, “buying” free time for less-remunerated research, etc) rather than on buying a ticket just to enjoy it after it’s here.