I’m not (yet) a ‘cryonicist’, but the answer to the first question seems simple to me: by being frozen while still more or less healthy, you’re giving up a variable length of time which you are certain to get, in exchange for improving by an unknown amount your small chances of maybe getting an unknown extra length of time (resurrection does not necessarily imply immortality, after all). You can’t put exact numbers on any of that, but enjoying your current life (while hopefully fastening your seat belts) at least until the first signs of fatal disease seems a sensible choice.
I would agree, however, that initiating “live cryonics” procedures makes sense once you’re stuck on a deathbed and too tired to lead at least a decent intellectual life.
[Disclaimer: I have bookmarked your post but haven’t read it yet, so I apologise if the above was addressed.]
Your second question I subscribe to, and is in fact currently one of my main doubts about cryonics.
I’m not (yet) a ‘cryonicist’, but the answer to the first question seems simple to me: by being frozen while still more or less healthy, you’re giving up a variable length of time which you are certain to get, in exchange for improving by an unknown amount your small chances of maybe getting an unknown extra length of time (resurrection does not necessarily imply immortality, after all). You can’t put exact numbers on any of that, but enjoying your current life (while hopefully fastening your seat belts) at least until the first signs of fatal disease seems a sensible choice.
I would agree, however, that initiating “live cryonics” procedures makes sense once you’re stuck on a deathbed and too tired to lead at least a decent intellectual life.
[Disclaimer: I have bookmarked your post but haven’t read it yet, so I apologise if the above was addressed.]
Your second question I subscribe to, and is in fact currently one of my main doubts about cryonics.