I found TobyBartels's recent explanation of why he doesn't want to sign up for cryonics a useful lesson in how different people's goals in living a long time (or not) can be from mine. Now I am wondering if maybe it would be a good idea to state some of the reasons people would want to wake up 100 years later if hit by a bus. Can't say I've been around here very long but it seems to me it's been assumed as some sort of "common sense" - is that accurate? I was wondering if other people's reasons for signing up / intending to sign up (I am not currently signed up and probably will not get around to such for several years) also differed interestingly from mine. Or is this too off topic?

As for me, I would think the obvious reason is what Hilbert said: "If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?" Finding yourself in the future means you now have the answers to a lot of previously open problems! As well as getting to learn the history of what happened after you were frozen. I have for a long time found not getting to learn the future history of the world to be the most troubling aspect of dying.

(Posting this here as it seems a bit off-topic under The Threat of Cryonics.)