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The requirement for rational suicide is not that strong. If the probability of improvement, multiplied by the utility of that improvement is not greater than the utility gained by ommitting the suffering that the agent would necessarily undergo before that improvement could be realized, suicide is rational.
This is correct, but I consider non-altruistic suicide with cryonics to hold a probability of improvement multiplied by the utility of improvement overwhelmingly greater than the utility gained by omitting the suffering that the agent would necessarily undergo before that improvement could be realized in an overwhelming proportion of cases.
There are probably some exceptions, but they will be overwhelmingly rare. I haven't heard any examples of exceptions.
You are right that I was wrong to use "zero possibility of improvement" as my requirement.