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by Terr_ 862 days ago
I agree there's a problem there, but I don't think it's quite that absolute, since people might be frozen for other reasons.

For example:

1. A patient with a rabies diagnosis, awaiting a future treatment.

2. Someone born with with muscular dystrophy, waiting for a retrogenic cure.

3. Someone who has simply run out of time to wait for a difficult to find donor organ.

4. The victim of gross physical trauma where there are too many. Holes to plug and things to sew and tubes to reconnect for it to be done safely in a warm state.

Any of those things could provide the necessary legal test cases without implying anything about whether we've cracked functional immortality or not.