So spending money or participating in that procedure would be entirely irrational from their perspective. What could they ever gain from that? They’d still be dead regardless of what the copy thinks or feels (until that procedure is done happens)
Spending the same resources to prolong your existence (even in a suboptimal state) seems literally infinite times more rational.
Roughly as irrational as having children. Humans are not rational beings.
> What could they ever gain from that?
Continuation of what they were trying to achieve in life.
> Spending the same resources to prolong your existence (even in a suboptimal state) seems literally infinite times more rational.
That entirely depends on what you value. You may value living in your suboptimal state less than chance at making something happen that you wanted to see happen but due to bodily limitations are no loger able to progress on.
Basically if you wake up after the cloning as your old biological self then you just drew the short straw. It's up to you if it helps you or not that there's another you that will continue on whatever you were doing without the nuisance of dying. Some people might find calmness in that they can freely die and nothing of value will be lost.
What about startrek transporters? Wouldn't you use them because you are getting disintegrated and what's create at destination is just a copy of you but not you?