Heavy use of dark arts, not logic or rationality is your best, if flimsy, hope.
You might be able to sell it as a really expensive burial of his wife to the conspiracist grandpa, and to both of them together as a glimmer of hope of them reuniting in the after(cryo)life. You might be able to use what Alicorn suggested on your grandfather, if you spin it right. Think about other arguments they (not you) might find convincing enough to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on. Is either of them big into lottery or gambling? What other biases that can be exploited are they prone to? Might guilt-tripping her by describing how you and your mom would miss her (with no hope of ever seeing her again) much more than the money. Compare voluntary death to suicide. As the saying goes, if you are not cheating you’re not trying hard enough.
As for your mom, “the future isn’t likely to want her” is likely not her true rejection. See if you can dig deeper.
Or you can let her go as she wishes, and hope that some of the resulting inheritance will allow you to start your own cryo insurance.
I imagine the author has written this with a healthy dose of self-irony. I applaud him for being so forthright about what we should all do as advocates of cryonics.
If this post had the irony suggested by brilee, I wasn’t able to pick it up and am responding as though it is serious.
As I said in response to Alicorn, I refuse to use dark arts. Not only would I not be good at it, it violates my morality in many ways. You’d have better luck convincing EY to use the dark arts for Singularity talks, simply because that’s a bigger issue. If he’s not willing to use dark arts when it’s the entire world or more at stake, it’s his Something To Protect and he needs to Shut Up and Do The Impossible, then I have no excuse using them simply to save just one person.
As for my mom, I believe that is her true rejection. She readily admits that the technology is feasible, but doesn’t see why somebody would revive her and things it somewhat plausible that it will be illegal to keep frozen bodies around between now and then.
It’s your choice, of course. I didn’t realize that you feel more negative about a bit of harmless manipulation than about your relatives being gone forever.
Heavy use of dark arts, not logic or rationality is your best, if flimsy, hope.
You might be able to sell it as a really expensive burial of his wife to the conspiracist grandpa, and to both of them together as a glimmer of hope of them reuniting in the after(cryo)life. You might be able to use what Alicorn suggested on your grandfather, if you spin it right. Think about other arguments they (not you) might find convincing enough to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on. Is either of them big into lottery or gambling? What other biases that can be exploited are they prone to? Might guilt-tripping her by describing how you and your mom would miss her (with no hope of ever seeing her again) much more than the money. Compare voluntary death to suicide. As the saying goes, if you are not cheating you’re not trying hard enough.
As for your mom, “the future isn’t likely to want her” is likely not her true rejection. See if you can dig deeper.
Or you can let her go as she wishes, and hope that some of the resulting inheritance will allow you to start your own cryo insurance.
I imagine the author has written this with a healthy dose of self-irony. I applaud him for being so forthright about what we should all do as advocates of cryonics.
If this post had the irony suggested by brilee, I wasn’t able to pick it up and am responding as though it is serious.
As I said in response to Alicorn, I refuse to use dark arts. Not only would I not be good at it, it violates my morality in many ways. You’d have better luck convincing EY to use the dark arts for Singularity talks, simply because that’s a bigger issue. If he’s not willing to use dark arts when it’s the entire world or more at stake, it’s his Something To Protect and he needs to Shut Up and Do The Impossible, then I have no excuse using them simply to save just one person.
As for my mom, I believe that is her true rejection. She readily admits that the technology is feasible, but doesn’t see why somebody would revive her and things it somewhat plausible that it will be illegal to keep frozen bodies around between now and then.
It’s your choice, of course. I didn’t realize that you feel more negative about a bit of harmless manipulation than about your relatives being gone forever.