Since there is already only a slim chance of actually getting to the revival part (even though high payoff keeps the project interesting, like with insurance), after mixing in the requirement of reaching the necessary tech in (say) 70 years for someone alive today to still be around, and also managing to die before that, not a lot is left, so I wouldn’t call it something to be “expected”. “Conditional on you getting revived, there is a good chance some of your non-frozen relatives are still alive” is more like it (and maybe that’s what you meant).
Do you mean that a relative I have now, or one who will be born later, will probably be around at that time? Because the former would require that I die soon (while my relatives don’t) or that there’s an awfully rapid turnaround between my being frozen and my being defrosted.
Even if none of your relatives sign up for cryonics, I would expect some of them to still be alive when you are revived.
Since there is already only a slim chance of actually getting to the revival part (even though high payoff keeps the project interesting, like with insurance), after mixing in the requirement of reaching the necessary tech in (say) 70 years for someone alive today to still be around, and also managing to die before that, not a lot is left, so I wouldn’t call it something to be “expected”. “Conditional on you getting revived, there is a good chance some of your non-frozen relatives are still alive” is more like it (and maybe that’s what you meant).
Do you mean that a relative I have now, or one who will be born later, will probably be around at that time? Because the former would require that I die soon (while my relatives don’t) or that there’s an awfully rapid turnaround between my being frozen and my being defrosted.
Well the whole point of signing up now is that you might die soon.
So sign up now. If you get to be old And still have no young family And the singularity doesn’t seem close, then cancel.