With life-changing decisions, it's especially important to worry about being a member of the reference class. In low stakes cases, you might say, well, it seems like I'm kind of similar in the relevant ways. But something as interesting and distinctive as becoming a vampire can be very different.
Philosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choosing. How should we think about the morality and personal impact of these kinds of experiences, especially when some decisions are very hard or impossible to reverse? Examples include becoming a vampire, having children, religion, and other life experiences and choices.