With cryonics, if somebody messes up at any point (the cryonics company goes broke, the LN2 production company experiences unexpected problems and any local stores are running low, an employee mishandles your body, etc.) then you are unlikely to be revived. With plastination, there’s a lot less that can go wrong; even if the future caretakers of your brain don’t believe it will work, it is more effort to destroy your brain than to leave it be. They may decide to bury it in a graveyard, but that’s less likely to prevent revival than thawing from cryonics.
In either case, the probability that revival will be technologically and socially possible given it’s physically possible approaches 1 as time approaches infinity, and the probability that something bad and irreversible happens to you given that you aren’t revived also approaches 1 as time approaches infinity. In either case, you’re betting that the former happens before the latter. However, this seems a much better bet with plastination than cryonics because it’s a lot harder for something bad to happen to you.
With cryonics, if somebody messes up at any point (the cryonics company goes broke, the LN2 production company experiences unexpected problems and any local stores are running low, an employee mishandles your body, etc.) then you are unlikely to be revived. With plastination, there’s a lot less that can go wrong; even if the future caretakers of your brain don’t believe it will work, it is more effort to destroy your brain than to leave it be. They may decide to bury it in a graveyard, but that’s less likely to prevent revival than thawing from cryonics.
In either case, the probability that revival will be technologically and socially possible given it’s physically possible approaches 1 as time approaches infinity, and the probability that something bad and irreversible happens to you given that you aren’t revived also approaches 1 as time approaches infinity. In either case, you’re betting that the former happens before the latter. However, this seems a much better bet with plastination than cryonics because it’s a lot harder for something bad to happen to you.