My own aged parents have put a very lot of effort into not getting killed by COVID this year, but they’re resistant to the idea of cryonics to the point where I’ve stopped badgering them about it. They actually believe me that it might work, they just don’t want to live forever.
The best argument I can get out of them is that the idea of living forever ‘seems a bit American’.
So, to summarize, people don’t want to live forever because life sucks so why would you want any more of it?
And yet, people seem to put a lot of effort into other life-extension technologies, like diet and exercise and medicine and health-and-safety.
It seems that people can and do go to great effort to live an extra year or two. It’s years in the distant future that they don’t want.
My own aged parents have put a very lot of effort into not getting killed by COVID this year, but they’re resistant to the idea of cryonics to the point where I’ve stopped badgering them about it. They actually believe me that it might work, they just don’t want to live forever.
The best argument I can get out of them is that the idea of living forever ‘seems a bit American’.