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What if I can't get a good body? (current objection). There are a few variations on this:
I will probably be in old age if I'm frozen, so I might wake up in the future as an old person. If they can make me a young body, that's not a problem, but should I assume that they're going to be able to do that? Maybe waking up from cryo in the future will involve being on life support for long periods of time while we're waiting for the technology for new bodies.
Who is going to pay for my new body? I have no idea what that would cost, so I can't possibly save for it now, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to assume that money will be N/A in the future. I'm pretty sure that all my skills would be worthless at that time, but not convinced that there would be money to make me a decent body at that time.
What if I wake up with no body at all... I'm imagining waking up as a head in a jar or a brain in some kind of server rack of brains.
What if the bodies are ill-conceived? I'm imagining waking up as a brain inside of R2D2 and having about the same quality of life as a mobile trash can. If you think this out, being stuck inside of an R2D2 body would be a really, really horrible fate - which I explain here.
There are certain things I'd like to retain the ability to do, and for some of those, I will need to be anatomically correct.
Once again, if I sign up now, I'll be an early adopter, which may mean that the technology for putting people into new bodies is still experimental and I may end up as a test subject.
Early adopter for being preserved doesn't mean early adopter for being revived. In fact, it probably means the opposite. Since the easiest people to revive will probably be the people preserved with the most advanced technology.
Oh! Good point. Hm. But that might mean that I'm among a group that was using such old technology that it's more or less arcane by that point... which could mean that there aren't very many people in my set to revive, and so less leeway to iron out the flaws before they get to me...
Is anyone freezing any lab mice or anything?
I can see myself at the cryo counter: "Hi, I want me and these 100 lab mice frozen."
Remember: you can always take random recently dead guys who donated their bodies to science, vitrify their brains, and experiment on them. And this'll be after years of animal studies and such.
You can freeze your pets.
Haha, I hadn't thought about that.