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Were I diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I would probably consider moving to a country in which assisted suicide is legal, and safely deanimating.
That sounds like the right way to do it, but is there anything stopping someone that committed suicide from getting frozen?
Either way, that would be one hell of a test in your belief... "Ending" what feels like a perfectly good life for the <50% chance that you wake up again somewhere nice.
Suicides get autopsied automatically, at least in the US.
Does this apply to legal assisted suicide within the US as well?
In the "diagnosed with Alzheimer's" scenario, cryonics aside, it only feels like a perfectly good life if you assign non-negative utility to the subjective experience of protracted brain death. (This is one reason why abstinence from smoking is at best a half-smart policy, though I'm sure I'll be voted down for that.)
I always vote down comments that say "I'll be voted down for this, but..."
Why did you have to add the last bit? You were making a good point!