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You're probably right, but I just thought about it from the point of view of someone dying from a (currently) incurable illness.

On one hand, you can die, and that will probably be it for you.

On the other hand, you can become cryogenically preserved. In that case, there are two outcomes I can see. One, you're never revived (which is functionally equivalent to death). The other, you awake (in what feels like an instant) in a world where you can continue living. That certainly makes it seem tempting for me.



another possibility is you wake up, disembodied, in a jar and live an eternal life of torment.


I hope if civilisation has got to the point of reviving the long dead that they'd have better uses for the revived than tormenting them.


For the downvoters: I think pron is referring tongue-and-cheek to Futurama, not a literal torture. :)




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