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You can spend the money on something that actually helps other people instead.



After the Final Countdown people will be delighted to find a warehouse full of cryo-preserved well-seasoned meat.


Actually it helps other people: it's used for researching more efficient ways of cryopreservation, thereby making it more accessible.


The same money could be spent on increasing the rate of research in this area by 100-1000x if we could solve how to do this on mice first...


The effectiveness of cryogenics goes way down when you don't freeze yourself.


I believe the chance that anyone who is cryopreserved today will ever be revived is exceedingly small, so I look at the whole venture as futile and in the same way I might look at an overly expensive funeral. Personally, I would spend my money to enjoy my life more while I'm alive, or else to help others in some tangible way.


Actually it is important tech for living people as well. The technology De Greg Fahy is working on can be used to freeze and unfreeze organs. It may save your (living) life if you get an organ just at the right time.


Yawn.




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