The goal for step three is to last long enough that a future society where your endowment could pay for it could bring you back with future tech. Ie a hail-mary.
Any future society where this is actually possible wouldn’t give a damn about the dead person’s endowment because they’d be so far beyond property rights at that technology level.
That one Star Trek TNG episode from 1987 had this right. The accidentally discovered 21st century cryogenists are stunned to find their former wealth and status are irrelevant in Picard-era Federation.
I think the question at that time would be: “Do we bring these likely brain-damaged people into a world they can’t understand and which would cause them pain” — and the answer might be “No, that would be cruel”.
>“Do we bring these likely brain-damaged people into a world they can’t understand and which would cause them pain” — and the answer might be “No, that would be cruel”
Some people already paid to maybe suffer that cruelty in the future, the same way some people already paid to go to the Titanic in an uncertified submarine and die.
TNG hand-waves the problems of the economy, property rights etc, and doesn't really explain how they got to were they are. Proclaiming modern capitalist attitudes as "brain-damaged" is a bit smug given this.
Many SF stories have parts of their plots involve what happens to the corpsicles - the frozen undead whose endowments/investments went bad. Usually they become organ donors.
There's an old saying "you can't take it with you".
