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I don't see these as different reasons, but two components of a point of view that hasn't been fully articulated. However, I share it. To accept death: once it's over, it's over. The things that you valued about life cannot be recovered by resuscitation 200 years later. Nevertheless, life is good. One more day, one more year, one more decade like today would be great. (If anyone can articulate this more fully, please do!)
This seems somewhat analogous to me to a situation where war or natural disaster destroys your home and kills most of your friends and family but you escape and have the opportunity to start afresh in a new and unfamiliar culture. Now that obviously sounds like a pretty unpleasant situation and vastly less preferable than if the war or disaster never occurred but I would still prefer to survive than to die. I can imagine that some people might feel differently when presented with that choice however.