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"A small change" of living after being cryopreserved after you are declared legally dead is less than your chance to win powerball jackpot with single ticket.

The alternative is that you do a little bit more with your life, because you don't spend $120/year and all the mental energy for planning your after-life.

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The probability of revival varies based on who you ask. SEM micrographs of cryopreserved mammal brain tissue show intact nanostructure. One can even see synaptic vesicles with neurotransmitters in them. Also, Alcor's cryopreservation protocol has been used to preserve and revive rabbit kidneys successfully (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/).

If cryonics works, this is the sort of evidence you'd expect to see today. Demanding a revival doesn't make sense, because cryonics relies on the vast gap between preservation tech and revival tech.

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