I was looking at the living will form letter from our lawyer yesterday and was struck by it’s inability to capture my real wishes. What do I really want? My entire body cryogenically stored? My brain? A sample of my DNA?
Realistically the only reason to store my whole body is if I believed that my body and mind could be re-habilitated much sooner than a time when my brain could be scanned and loaded into a new body cloned from my DNA.
Ultimately I need to just accept that my living will will have to be updated on a yearly basis, or more carefully worded with an executor who truly understands my wishes.
The choice is heavily dependent on the cost of each option and my assets at the time.
For now, I believe that the most cost effective and risk mitigating option is to cryogenically freeze my brain. I am very patient while I am alive, I think in death I will be even more patient. I will be willing to wait until a new body can be fashioned from my DNA, or at least until my brain can be non-destructively scanned and uploaded into a machine.
If I get in an accident before I have my living will legal drafted, let this serve as my most recent desire.