Do you fear death? I sure do. My plan is to live long enough that there will be technology available to prolong our lives. Sure this plan is kind of dependent on outside sources… and probably won’t work.
Also you have to consider cryogenic solutions… for example. It doesn’t try to preserve you now - but it tries to leave you in a state that possible future technology could revive you. Depending on your religious views you may not consider this ‘ethical’ or ‘right’. As for me - I don’t know. What I know is that if I had the option to have my body preserved in such a way - at this point in time - I would. Not saying I would freeze myself now, yet I would have my body frozen (when dead/right at deaths door).
Depending on how it all pans out you may just then wake up in the future… and not notice the time gap. Personally if this whole thing works I think that’s how it would go. While frozen you couldn’t dream - there would be no thought processes.
In the end its just something to think about. Hopefully I won’t need to consider anything like that seriously for quite a while yet.
I don’t want to be revived, the world would probably be in some form of dystopia.
Depends on how technology has progressed - if we have produced some infallible supply of fuel, as well as the technology to revive people… well lets just say I think the world wouldn’t be a dystopia. Even if it was you could just be put ‘on ice’ again until things fixed themselves. You know the whole cleansing through fire kind of idea.
If they ever do figure out a way to do it, I doubt that it would have anything to do with these current methods of cyrogenics. Technology changes at a rapid pace and so these current methods would probably be outdated. Besides, the whole thing is a huge gamble, it aint cheap.
But even if it does work, what are you going to do?
Well if it doesn’t work then what will I have lost? Dead people don’t need money… also by the time I would be needing this hopefully I will be a rich man… unlikely but still. Also the current method basically just freezes you, its main aim is to simply keep your brain intact.
And if it did work well I would have a longer life, spend more time living I guess.