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by philwelch 5590 days ago
I don't think anyone who's ever been declared "dead" has ever been "resuscitated" more than a year after the fact, at least not since we've been able to distinguish a comatose state from death.

Fine, there's a slim chance it's theoretically possible. I openly conceded that. Multiply that by all the other slim chances involved, though, and it gets even slimmer. It doesn't balance against the extreme costs unless your decision-making process is extraordinarily selfish.

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I choose not to pretend my decisions aren't selfish.
Even from a selfish perspective, cryonics is basically the science fiction version of Pascal's Wager.