akshatrathi comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 19 January 2010 09:36:36PM *  11 points [-]

I see a disturbing surface similarity.

"If you don't teach your children the One True Religion, you're a lousy parent."

My own excuse for not signing up for cryonics is not that I don't think it will work, it's that I don't particularly value my own existence. I'm much more concerned about the effects of my death on other people than its effects on me; I've resolved not to die before my parents do, because I don't want them to suffer the grief my death would cause.

Incidentally, is it possible to sign someone else up for cryonics, if they don't object?

Comment author: akshatrathi 20 January 2010 12:07:48AM 1 point [-]

I've resolved not to die before my parents do, because I don't want them to suffer the grief my death would cause.

How would you make sure that will not happen?

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 January 2010 12:26:08AM 0 points [-]

I'll rephrase.

I've resolved not to die voluntarily before my parents do.