Similarly, if she thinks that the afterlife is really nice and pleasant, to the point where given the option of cryonic revival and the afterlife she would rather be in the afterlife, why isn’t she killing herself now?
Successful afterlife memes are almost always packaged with a “but if you commit suicide you don’t get to go, or go to hell, or won’t get into the super VIP section of heaven.”
Successful afterlife memes are almost always packaged with a “but if you commit suicide you don’t get to go, or go to hell, or won’t get into the super VIP section of heaven.”
In the case of Christianity, the reason that suicide is a mortal sin is that a Christian in this life is as a soldier on sentry duty, who may not despair, abandon his post, and betray his comrades. Buddhism has a similar concept of the bodhisattva, who chooses to remain in this life to help those who still suffer. For that matter, in war situations, sleeping on guard can get you shot out of hand.
Successful afterlife memes are almost always packaged with a “but if you commit suicide you don’t get to go, or go to hell, or won’t get into the super VIP section of heaven.”
In the case of Christianity, the reason that suicide is a mortal sin is that a Christian in this life is as a soldier on sentry duty, who may not despair, abandon his post, and betray his comrades. Buddhism has a similar concept of the bodhisattva, who chooses to remain in this life to help those who still suffer. For that matter, in war situations, sleeping on guard can get you shot out of hand.
...in which case, it’s clearly your sacred moral duty to sign up for cryonics.