Ignore the storyline, characters, and any issues with people dying because systems are failing. Say a single isolated issue with your hibernation pod woke you up 90 years early. The rest of the ship is entirely functional and will be until destination is reached. Your spouse is in the pod next to you and you both love each other deeply. You don't have access to autodoctor hibernate function because you don't have clearance, and neither do you know about it. What do you do? I think this is a more interesting ethical question than the one Chris struggled with (he obviously made the wrong moral choice for purely selfish reasons). On one hand, you ARE essentially condemning the person you love the most to never fulfilling the dream of settling Homestead II. You are consigning them to a lifetime living on the ship. On the other hand, by not waking them, you take away their choice of ever seeing the person they loved again. Essentially, you have to make a judgment call on what being with you means to your spouse. If your spouse and relationship is one of those romantic "as long as I am with you, I don't care about anything else" deals, but even then, usually that wears off after a while. Put even more rationally, Quality Adjusted Life Years is what population studies talk about. Is your sole company enough to make up the difference in QALYs between your spouse living out their life on the ship with you alone vs the life they dreamed of on Homestead II without you? Personally, for me, as much as I love my wife and she does me, I wouldn't wake her up. It's like dragging her into a life sentence jail with no possibility of parole. It would crush me to see her waste away her life in what is essentially lifetime house arrest at a nice hotel. By not waking her, she will eventually get over me and live a better life with 5000 other people on the new planet, hopefully meet a nice guy who treats her right, and have a big family and happy life. That said, if my wife were awake, I would want her to wake me up early. I couldn't stand to think of her living alone without me being there for her, supporting, caring and loving her. I love her dearly and me waking up with 5000 strangers on a distant planet would feel meaningless without her. I know I would probably eventually get over her, remarry, etc. But I still think I would rather be woken up. We would get to spend the rest of our lives together as we vowed to each other. We may even decide to have children, although that's an entirely different ethical dilemma all on its own. It's interesting that we view things differently when we make the choice vs the choice being made for us. What would you do?