I would find this to be a pretty big incompatibility. I had no idea that Robin Hanson’s wife was so opposed to cryonics:
“You have to understand,” says Peggy, who at 54 is given to exasperation about her husband’s more exotic ideas. “I am a hospice social worker. I work with people who are dying all the time. I see people dying All. The. Time. And what’s so good about me that I’m going to live forever?”
First of all, it’s not about living “forever.” It’s about living as long as you want to live. What’s so bad about you that you don’t want to do that?
If I were him, I’d be very worried about her fidelity to my wishes, if he goes first.
It’s a very interesting article with insight into the transhumanist subculture, by Kerry Howley.
Rand, while it is his choice and his wishes should be obeyed when it comes to it, you shouldn’t discount the technical issues involved. Freezing a body does all kinds of damage to it on a cellular level. The odds are very much against him ever actually being “reanimated”. Still, it’s his call.
I and other cryonicists are well aware of the odds. Nonetheless, they beat the odds of the alternative.
See also:
http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/is-that-what-love-is-the-hostile-wife-phenomenon-in-cryonics/