dvasya comments on PSA: Very important policy change at Cryonics Institute - Less Wrong Discussion
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...and they probably won't do it when the time comes to act.
The history of cryonics teaches us that, while people often contact cryonics companies to freeze their already or soon-to-be dead relatives on their own incentive, it is a much more common situation that the relatives of a person who has already completed all the paperwork and paid for the cryopreservation with their own money try to actively prevent the preservation.
Note also that the non-signed-up people's relatives come from a population many orders of magnitude larger than signed-up people's relatives.