That’s true. I didn’t spend my own money on them (I grew up in the UK), and they didn’t cost very much in comparison, but I agree that it’s a good example of a medical long shot.
Yep, the cost and especially the administrative hassles are, in comparison to the probability considerations, closer to the true reason I (for instance) am not signed up yet, in spite of seeing it as my best shot of insuring long life.
To be fair, vaccination is also a long shot in terms of frequency, but definitely proven to work with close to certainty on any given patient. Cryonics is a long shot intrisically.
But it might not be if more was invested in researching it, and more might be invested if cryonics was already used on a precautionary basis in situations where it would also save money (e.g. death row inmates and terminal patients) and risk nothing of significance (since no better outcome than death can be expected).
In that sense it seems obviously rational to advocate cryonics as a method of assisted suicide, and only the “weirdness factor”, religious-moralistic hangups and legislative inertia can explain the reluctance to adopt it more broadly.
Did you ever get any vaccination shots? Some of these are for diseases that have become quite rare.
That’s true. I didn’t spend my own money on them (I grew up in the UK), and they didn’t cost very much in comparison, but I agree that it’s a good example of a medical long shot.
Yep, the cost and especially the administrative hassles are, in comparison to the probability considerations, closer to the true reason I (for instance) am not signed up yet, in spite of seeing it as my best shot of insuring long life.
To be fair, vaccination is also a long shot in terms of frequency, but definitely proven to work with close to certainty on any given patient. Cryonics is a long shot intrisically.
But it might not be if more was invested in researching it, and more might be invested if cryonics was already used on a precautionary basis in situations where it would also save money (e.g. death row inmates and terminal patients) and risk nothing of significance (since no better outcome than death can be expected).
In that sense it seems obviously rational to advocate cryonics as a method of assisted suicide, and only the “weirdness factor”, religious-moralistic hangups and legislative inertia can explain the reluctance to adopt it more broadly.