Why do you assume that everyone you know will be dead? Won't some of them also be preserved.

As for "everything you knew is history", who wouldn't want to witness and be a part of a new world?

Or imagine waking up in a world where “ownership” of your mind has exchanged hands as the company who started this has gone through “structural changes” etc and you’ll basically be commandeered to be the brain of someones coffee machine or something for an eternity.

Or, as in the Bobiverse books, the brain of a space probe, but I have a bleaker view of the future than that…

More time to pursue hobbies and see the literal future? Uh yeah. Especially if friends/family also opt in.

Even worse, imagine waking up in a world where 200 years have gone by and nothing has changed, everyone is still here that you knew in your 'first' life. All the self-serving bosses, all the mendacious politicians, all the mediocre entertainers. Like a groundhog day from hell, forever.

Fry found a way to make it work

Just buy the family pack and get your wife and kids on it too.

As for traveling to the future: that sounds like fun!

I've thought about this a bunch

I don't necessarily want to live forever. But I am very curious about Humanity's ultimate fate. I want to see how things play out

I want to know if there is life out in the universe, if humanity ever meets other intelligent life, or even if we ever meaningfully leave Earth

I don't know. I love the good in humanity, I hope we eventually wind up more good than bad, and I just want to see.

Edit: Also, if we ever actually build a society that is a lot more meaningfully ethical and good than our current society, maybe I would want to live forever in it, or at least a very long time. Maybe it would just be nice to have the choice of when I go

I imagine there's plenty of appeal among the zero introspection set.

Futurama and the Bobiverse series investigate this pretty well.

Same question as if you'd like to drop everything and create a new life on the other side of the world, not for everyone.

I quite enjoyed the original run of the docuseries "Futurama" on this concept.

see Altered Carbon (netflix), amazing story.

I'm infinitely curious, so it's almost a perk that everything I knew would be history, implying there's a ton of stuff to learn/catch up on.

I've dealt with loss. It sucks, but it's part of being alive (I say with just a hint of irony).

I do recognize that not everyone feels this way about this topic though. That's ok.

This assumes you wake up and are given liberties. There are much worse fates. Waking up and owing your life to the company forever is pretty awful.

Worse even is never truly waking up but instead being replicated and turned into the brain for a servitor. If you believe the Roko Worshippers, you might be woken up just to be tortured.

Yeah, count me out. I don't even like how the world's played out in the 40 years I've been here. Imagine waking up in 200 years and finding out 90% of the world is still poor, we can't feed everybody, the rich still get to do whatever they want, we're still warring for no good reason, etc.