Morendil comments on The Threat of Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 04 August 2010 05:51:46PM 2 points [-]

32% of the people who view their loved one's corpse find it to be a negative experience

I wouldn't expect anyone to be happy about paying their last respects to a loved one's remains. It's not a walk in the woods.

The question at hand is relative, not absolute: would someone be worse off (in the long term) it their last memory of a loved one was of their mangled body, or of a version of it resembling the person in life.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 05 August 2010 11:46:06AM 3 points [-]

The question is whether they would be worse off with cremation or simply with no ceremony... or with cryonics of course, for that matter.