On cryonics: it’s easy to come up with poorly supported future scenarios—either pro or con. We’ve heard from the cons, so here’s a pro: at the point where it looks plausible to the general public that frozen dead people might be revived, pulling the plug on the freezers may appear to become morally equivalent to pulling the plug on patients with intact brains who are comatose but not medically dead. It may no longer a purely financial question in the eye of the public, especially if some enterprising journalist decides to focus on the issue.
On cryonics: it’s easy to come up with poorly supported future scenarios—either pro or con. We’ve heard from the cons, so here’s a pro: at the point where it looks plausible to the general public that frozen dead people might be revived, pulling the plug on the freezers may appear to become morally equivalent to pulling the plug on patients with intact brains who are comatose but not medically dead. It may no longer a purely financial question in the eye of the public, especially if some enterprising journalist decides to focus on the issue.
This sort of prognostication is a mug’s game.