Is Cryonics Ethical?

Some of the questions and opinions to mull over:

When put this way it doesn't sound so bad. Many articles also point out that the process cannot take place until after legally determined anyways, so you can be burned, buried, or frozen, non of which seem to appealing.

Because some human sample tissues have been successfully "frozen" and "unfrozen" should we just offer up our bodies to be preserved?

Should anyone really live forever?

Why would anyone want to live on and on?

There's a sense that they may be the last generation that is going to have to die, that they might just miss out on immortality, Alexander adds. "And that's going to be enormously frustrating." (ABC)

Too much is still unknown as the whether vitrification will really work on whole human bodies. Until we know for sure whether or not it is actually going to work it seems somewhat illogical.

"Therefore, it makes no sense to ask if the survival of any one person or even the whole of humankind matters in some objective sense. A god-like Being may make judgements concerning the value of humankind, but the physical universe makes no such judgements. It is living beings who make judgements and have purposes -- and rarely with unanimity " (Best).

"About 1,000 people pay Alcor $400 a year and have named Alcor as their life insurance beneficiary to cover the cost of freezing just the head for $50,000 or the entire body for $120,000. " (Wired)

A question to ask yourself if you are thinking of cryonics is "Do I want to freeze just my head or my whole body?"