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PS: What our putative terminal patient ought to do is sign up for cryonics, something that has a much better than "small" chance of working. And if the experimental treatment would get in the way of that, forget the experimental treatment. If people didn't cling to tiny hopes, they might see their large ones.
Problem with this is that if the experimental treatments never get tried then even if cryonics works they will still be terminally ill when defrosted. They should probably also make sure that there is some prize around for curing their specific illness with the hope that it will be easily solvable in the future, assuming the illness is relatively rare.
No one is going to remove someone from suspension if one can't cure whatever killed the person. That would be a waste of resources.
This is a really good idea.
If reviving people works at all, it will probably be either uploading or rebuilding a human body from scratch. Reviving an ill person doesn't seem likely enough to be concerned about.