Episode #46 – Minerva on the Ethics of Cryonics

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In this episode I talk to Francesca Minerva. Francesca is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ghent. Her research focuses on applied philosophy, specifically lookism, conscientious objection, abortion, academic freedom, and cryonics. She has published many articles on these topics in some of the leading academic journals in ethics and philosophy, including the Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly Review of Ethicsand the Hastings Centre Report. We talk about life, death and the wisdom and ethics of cryonics.

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Show Notes:

0:00 – Introduction
1:34 – What is cryonics anyway?
6:54 – The tricky logistics and cryonics: you need to die in the right way
10:30 – Is cryonics too weird/absurd to take seriously? Analogies with IVF and frozen embryos
16:04 – The opportunity cost of cryonics
18:18 – Is death bad? Why?
22:51 – Is live worth living at all? Is it better never to have been born?
24:44 – What happens when live is no longer worth living? The attraction of cryothanasia
30:28 – Should we want to live forever? Existential tiredness and existential boredom
37:20 – Is immortality irrelevant to the debate about cryonics?
41:42 – Even if cryonics is good for me might it be the unethical choice?
45:00 (ish) – Egalitarianism and the distribution of life years
49:39 – Would future generations want to revive us?
52:34 – Would we feel out of place in the distant future?

Relevant Links

Francesca’s webpage
The Ethics of Cryonics: Is it immoral to be immortal? by Francesca
‘Cryopreservation of Embryos and Fetuses as a Future Option for Family Planning Purposes‘ by Francesca and Anders Sandberg
‘Euthanasia and Cryothanasia‘ by Francesca and Anders Sandberg
‘The Badness of Death and the Meaning of Life‘ (Series) – pretty much everything I’ve ever written about the philosophy of life and death
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Cryonics Institute
To be a Machine by Mark O’Connell

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