There are also synthetic organs which may be used anyway, in the scenario where you’re revived from cryopreservation, cured of all damage, and go on living normally. If the process of preserving someone isn’t harmed by organ harvesting, I don’t see a reason not to donate.
As long as you can get around how harvesting takes extra time, allowing further decay and more opportunities for neurostructural damage, that seems right. Maybe partial preservation for the brain that doesn’t damage the organs, then harvesting, then full preservation? Unless organs can be harvested after full preservation, in which case one shouldn’t mind others using them to live for a while and getting new organs made with future technology.
Too bad we can’t have our organs sold and the proceeds invested to pay the medical expenses of our future selves. Or can we...
There are also synthetic organs which may be used anyway, in the scenario where you’re revived from cryopreservation, cured of all damage, and go on living normally. If the process of preserving someone isn’t harmed by organ harvesting, I don’t see a reason not to donate.
As long as you can get around how harvesting takes extra time, allowing further decay and more opportunities for neurostructural damage, that seems right. Maybe partial preservation for the brain that doesn’t damage the organs, then harvesting, then full preservation? Unless organs can be harvested after full preservation, in which case one shouldn’t mind others using them to live for a while and getting new organs made with future technology.
Too bad we can’t have our organs sold and the proceeds invested to pay the medical expenses of our future selves. Or can we...
As a result of legal-bureaucratic issues, they are mutually incompatible.