It’s all in the framing. Everyone is happy to celebrate life in other contexts (i.e. when people aren’t dying from old age): they celebrate all the things you list—exploration of the future, clever technology, heroic interventions, hopes for a better world.
the problem is they don’t believe in cryonics. If people perceived cryonics, on a gut level, as having some non-negligible chance of successful revival—rather than at best a Pascal’s Bargain that any odds are better than none—then I think some of those people would be able to switch to viewing cryonics as bravely taking a risk for a chance of a better life.
There’s confirmation bias and priming, too. If the person going cryonapping acts cheerful about it, all the way through (not like the one in the OP article), he might help others feel cheerful about it as well.
It’s all in the framing. Everyone is happy to celebrate life in other contexts (i.e. when people aren’t dying from old age): they celebrate all the things you list—exploration of the future, clever technology, heroic interventions, hopes for a better world.
the problem is they don’t believe in cryonics. If people perceived cryonics, on a gut level, as having some non-negligible chance of successful revival—rather than at best a Pascal’s Bargain that any odds are better than none—then I think some of those people would be able to switch to viewing cryonics as bravely taking a risk for a chance of a better life.
There’s confirmation bias and priming, too. If the person going cryonapping acts cheerful about it, all the way through (not like the one in the OP article), he might help others feel cheerful about it as well.