Many among us will spend the better part of a million dollars to preserve the life of children born so deformed and disabled that they actually will spend a significant amount of their lives in pain and the rest of it not being able to do much of what gives the rest of us pleasure or status. You don’t have to be actively malicious to think that life at any cost is a Good Thing (tm).
There’s also the theoretical possibility that the world you are revived in to is perceived as a good one by the people born in to it, but is too hard to adjust to for a very old person from a very different world. I doubt the majority of slaves would prefer death to the lives they had, but someone who had lived 80 years in freedom and the best the 21st century could offer in terms of material comforts might not be as blase about a very different status quo in the future.
If the people reviving you are not malicious then you would expect to have the option of dying again unless they don’t believe you that your life sucks too much.
Also the psychology of happiness seems to suggest that people adjust pretty well to big life changes.
Unless you are defining malicious to mean “lets me kill myself if I want to,” then being revived into a society with similar laws and values as the current U.S. would certainly make it illegal for you to kill yourself. Most of us realize we could do it if we wanted anyway, but a society that can revive you probably has more effective means of enforcing prohibitions. Even now, we already have “chemical castration” for some sex criminals.
Many among us will spend the better part of a million dollars to preserve the life of children born so deformed and disabled that they actually will spend a significant amount of their lives in pain and the rest of it not being able to do much of what gives the rest of us pleasure or status. You don’t have to be actively malicious to think that life at any cost is a Good Thing (tm).
There’s also the theoretical possibility that the world you are revived in to is perceived as a good one by the people born in to it, but is too hard to adjust to for a very old person from a very different world. I doubt the majority of slaves would prefer death to the lives they had, but someone who had lived 80 years in freedom and the best the 21st century could offer in terms of material comforts might not be as blase about a very different status quo in the future.
If the people reviving you are not malicious then you would expect to have the option of dying again unless they don’t believe you that your life sucks too much.
Also the psychology of happiness seems to suggest that people adjust pretty well to big life changes.
Unless you are defining malicious to mean “lets me kill myself if I want to,” then being revived into a society with similar laws and values as the current U.S. would certainly make it illegal for you to kill yourself. Most of us realize we could do it if we wanted anyway, but a society that can revive you probably has more effective means of enforcing prohibitions. Even now, we already have “chemical castration” for some sex criminals.
Okay, that’s a good point. (I assume you meant “defining ‘not malicious’ to mean ‘lets me kill myself...’”)