“I need you to definitely stay dead forever so I can stop worrying about it,”
What? Why isn’t it more like: “It’s very probable that you stay dead forever, so I better stop worrying about it and move on, because if I don’t, it’ll likely screw up my very probably finite, only life.”
If the person takes the burden on themselves to stop worrying about their loved ones who pursue cryonics, that would be a better description. I was trying to encapsulate the scenario under discussion of people who resist letting their loved ones pursue cryonics because it interferes with their sense of closure.
What? Why isn’t it more like: “It’s very probable that you stay dead forever, so I better stop worrying about it and move on, because if I don’t, it’ll likely screw up my very probably finite, only life.”
If the person takes the burden on themselves to stop worrying about their loved ones who pursue cryonics, that would be a better description. I was trying to encapsulate the scenario under discussion of people who resist letting their loved ones pursue cryonics because it interferes with their sense of closure.
That indeed would be so incredibly selfish that I was blind to the possibility until you explicitly pointed it out now.