> If you assume technology will be fantastic enough one day to revive your perished brain, what holds back the caution that this same technology cannot be used

> If you assume technology will be fantastic enough one day to revive your perished brain, what holds back the caution that this same technology cannot be used to subject you to inescapable torture? This is a sci-fi scenario, not a realistic one. Even so, Alcor has policies in place to prevent it. All five members of the Patient Care Trust Board must be signed up for cryonics, and the majority of them must have a relative or significant other currently cryopreserved.[1] Also, the dewar flasks must be topped-up every few months. If Alcor succumbs to some disaster, the brains will warm up and be destroyed. There's no scenario where evil future archaeologists unearth brains to revive and torture. Again, I must stress how ridiculously implausible this scenario is. Torture requires that a future society expend resources to resurrect some random people from the past, then inflict harm on them. There's no way to profit from those actions. It would require a society that intrinsically valued the torture of strangers. 1. https://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/patientcaretrustfund.html https://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/patientcaretrustfund.html