You’re assuming that people who find life a net negative could simply choose to commit suicide. I don’t think that this is a realistic assumption for most people. For many people, actively taking your own life is something that only becomes an option once it gets really, really shitty—and not necessarily even then.
If someone falls into this class and puts high chance on their post-cryonics life being one of misery, but still not enough misery that they’d be ready to kill themselves, then cryonics may reasonably seem like negative expected value. (Especially if they assume that societies will maintain the trend of trying to prevent people from killing themselves when possible, and that a future society might be much better at this than ours, making suicide much harder to accomplish.)
Seems not much worse than actual-death, given that in this scenario you could still choose to actually-die if you didn’t like your post-cryonics life.
You’re assuming that people who find life a net negative could simply choose to commit suicide. I don’t think that this is a realistic assumption for most people. For many people, actively taking your own life is something that only becomes an option once it gets really, really shitty—and not necessarily even then.
If someone falls into this class and puts high chance on their post-cryonics life being one of misery, but still not enough misery that they’d be ready to kill themselves, then cryonics may reasonably seem like negative expected value. (Especially if they assume that societies will maintain the trend of trying to prevent people from killing themselves when possible, and that a future society might be much better at this than ours, making suicide much harder to accomplish.)