Personally,, if I signed up for Cryonics, and then future generations discovered with certainty that it was impossible to bring me back to life (my brain had degraded enough that sufficient information wasn't available, or maybe they discover that souls exist or something), I would consider it entirely reasonable for them to dispose of m…
Personally,, if I signed up for Cryonics, and then future generations discovered with certainty that it was impossible to bring me back to life (my brain had degraded enough that sufficient information wasn't available, or maybe they discover that souls exist or something), I would consider it entirely reasonable for them to dispose of my body and turn the resources towards something else.
The "with certainty" part makes the comparison slightly harder, since while we haven't found any evidence to support the idea that an afterlife exists, we haven't found any evidence disproving it either...In this case though, I get the impression that the modern Catholic Church most likely no longer supports the idea that prayers can reduce time in purgatory, which could be construed as a "discovery" of new "evidence" that prayers no longer reduce time in purgatory.
Personally,, if I signed up for Cryonics, and then future generations discovered with certainty that it was impossible to bring me back to life (my brain had degraded enough that sufficient information wasn't available, or maybe they discover that souls exist or something), I would consider it entirely reasonable for them to dispose of my body and turn the resources towards something else.
The "with certainty" part makes the comparison slightly harder, since while we haven't found any evidence to support the idea that an afterlife exists, we haven't found any evidence disproving it either...In this case though, I get the impression that the modern Catholic Church most likely no longer supports the idea that prayers can reduce time in purgatory, which could be construed as a "discovery" of new "evidence" that prayers no longer reduce time in purgatory.