"I once got cornered by an over-the-top extropian who explained that (...) pattern matching of scanned-in images of the ice-damaged fragments of frozen brains until a simulation of the resulting neural net produced a coherent personality."

So the best hope that they can offer is not that YOU will be rewilifried (now ya'll got me doing it), but that maybe a copy of you can be made. Wotta gyp!

(Of course, not even the eternally skeptical Leonard H. figured out that the transporter did worse than to "scatter his molecules across the galaxy." It actually killed him, disintegrated his remains down to the quantum level, and used that as a template to manufacture a duplicate Sawbones out of local debris elsewhere. "Dammit, Jim, I'm a Xerox, not a doctor!")