The circumstances under which I would opt to be killed are extremely specific. Namely, I would want not to be revived if I were to be tortured indefinitely. This is actually more specific than it sounds: in order for this to occur, there must exist an entity which would soon possess the ability to revive me, and an incentive to do so rather than just allowing me to die. I find this to be such an extreme edge case that I’m actually uncomfortable with the characterization of the conversation. Instead, I’d turn around the result in question: under what circumstances do you want to be revived?
Trivially, we should want to be revived into a civilization which possesses the technology to revive us at all, and subsequently extend our lives. If circumstances are bad on Earth, we should prefer to defer our revival until those circumstances improve. If they never do, the overwhelming probability is that cryonic remains will simply be forgotten, turned off, and the frozen are never revived. But building a terminal death condition which might be triggered denies us the probability of waiting out those bad circumstances.
The circumstances under which I would opt to be killed are extremely specific. Namely, I would want not to be revived if I were to be tortured indefinitely. This is actually more specific than it sounds: in order for this to occur, there must exist an entity which would soon possess the ability to revive me, and an incentive to do so rather than just allowing me to die. I find this to be such an extreme edge case that I’m actually uncomfortable with the characterization of the conversation. Instead, I’d turn around the result in question: under what circumstances do you want to be revived?
Trivially, we should want to be revived into a civilization which possesses the technology to revive us at all, and subsequently extend our lives. If circumstances are bad on Earth, we should prefer to defer our revival until those circumstances improve. If they never do, the overwhelming probability is that cryonic remains will simply be forgotten, turned off, and the frozen are never revived. But building a terminal death condition which might be triggered denies us the probability of waiting out those bad circumstances.
tl;dr Don’t choose death, choose deferment.