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You are one of the first to be revived.
The technique is imperfect, and causes you massive neurological damage (think late stage Alzheimer's), trapping you in a nonverbal yet incredibly painful and horrifying state.
Due to advances in gerontology, you have a nearly infinite lifespan ahead of you, cognizant only of what you have lost.
When neuroscience finally advances to the point where you can be fixed, it's still not yet advanced enough to give you back your memories.
You're effectively a completely different person, and you know that.
Seems not much worse than actual-death, given that in this scenario you (or the person who replaces you) could still choose to actually-die if you didn't like your post-cryonics life.
Well, my current self and associated memories/opinions is fine with the second part, this is basically just a Buddhist hell where afterwards I get reincarnated into the post-singularity future.
ETA: also highly unlikely, since it happening to me is conditional on the scenario happening to anyone.
Couldn't you get refrozen until they can fix that too?
Good point. I'm going to make another, different post detailing the horrifying yet somewhat plausible idea your comment gave me which "fixes" that oversight.
In the meantime, there's this: you're assuming that in the future, you'll have rights, and agency.