Terror Management seems to explain the reactions to cryonics pretty well. I’ve only skimmed the OP enough to want to trot out the standard explanation, so I may have missed something, but so far as I can tell the Historical Death Meme and Terror Management make the same predictions.
It is in fact absolutely unacceptable, from a simple humanitarian perspective, that something as nebulous as the HDM—however artistic, cultural, and deeply ingrained it may be—should ever be substituted for an actual human life.
Accepting something is the first step to changing it, so you’ll have to do better than that.
Terror Management seems to explain the reactions to cryonics pretty well. I’ve only skimmed the OP enough to want to trot out the standard explanation, so I may have missed something, but so far as I can tell the Historical Death Meme and Terror Management make the same predictions.
Accepting something is the first step to changing it, so you’ll have to do better than that.