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An interesting point. Keeping in mind that cryonics "believers" trust cryonics with varying degrees of probability and that many or even most of them try to appear more rational to their skeptical friends by saying "The probability is only 20% but that still makes it a good bet based on expected utility", then I'd say that I've seen both behaviors. That is, I've seen some cryonicists expressing grief, some cryonicists (including myself) saying "See you later", and my untrustworthy eyeballs indicate that this correlates to how much trust they have in cryonics.
Eyeballs also indicate that someone who's more deeply involved in the cryonics community per se is less likely to mourn, regardless of what they say about their verbal probabilities. And furthermore, when someone is suspended who themselves believed strongly in cryonics, "weak" cryonics advocates are less likely to mourn that person! This may have something to do with the degree to which mourning is empathy...? Or do they, perhaps, believe just strongly enough to worry that the one will come back and be annoyed at the "condolences"?
Are weakly religious people less likely to mourn the death of strongly religious people? I'm guessing "Yes" - and it'd be easier to gather data here.
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Eliezer, that's false reasoning. I'm not religious, so don't take this as the opening to a religious tirade, but it's a pet peeve of mine that intelligent people will assert that every belief within a religion is wrong if only one piece of it is wrong.
There are a billion and one reasons why a body of knowledge that is is mostly correct (not saying I think religions are) could have one flaw. This particular flaw doesn't prove God doesn't exist, it would only prove God souls aren't necessary for an intelligent life form to survive, or (perhaps, to a religious person) that God isn't the only entity that can make them.
It's easy to get lazy when one's opponent isn't challenging enough (I've done it occasionally) and I've said stuff like that. I think it's best not to. They're not convincing to the opposition and we're not challenging ourselves to improve.
It looks like false logic to me too, but I'm very aware that that is how many Christians "prove" their religion to be true. 'The Bible says this historical/Godly event happened and this archeological evidence supports the account in the Bible, therefore the Bible must be true about everything so God exists and I'm going to Heaven.' Which sounds very similar to 'This is a part of what you say about your religion and it may be proved false one day, so your religion might be too.'
Is it okay to slip into the streams of thought that the other considers logic in order to beat them at it and potentially shake their beliefs?