Melody: “ There's no guarantee that today's money system will exist when you're revived, so why not spend that money now to help cryonics?”
Comment: There is no guarantee that any current system will exists when/if you’re revived. Monetary, Political, Cultural, Religious, etc, etc. pick and chose any system. However, throughout human history, Political, Cultural, Religious, Legal and all other systems were changing. All, with the exception of one - Monetary system. Monetary system is in existence Millennia and Millennia, probably ever since people started hunting, or agriculture, if not even earlier. There is no reason to foresee the abolishment of some monetary system in any future organized human society (or even in an anarchic society).
Melody: “I believe Edward is right; the people working on so-called “wealth preservation” are setting up the field of cryonics for even more skepticism, criticism and ridicule.”
Comment: I think it is irrelevant reasoning. The only relevance is: Do they have the legal right to do so. Yes? Or No? The ridiculous reasoning wold be: He/she is going to be cryo-preserved, so we must take his/her property. Hell, it is not so ridiculous. Every single heir thinks along those lines.
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