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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by eli_gottlieb on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:47PM (#11602985)
Money is finite. Given the available evidence, I'd rather spend it on universal health-care for the poor than on scientifically unsupported medical treatments. Besides which, the largest boosts to life-expectancy have tended to come from public health interventions that cross-cut the age spectrum rather than end-of-life desperation measures anyway.

We'd all like to act as if each human life had infinite value, but unfortunately, we don't have infinite resources to act with.

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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by FeepingCreature on Sunday May 01, 2016 @12:05AM (#11604819)
Eh, if you factor in economy of scale cryonics can arguably be competetive with end-of-life desperation measures or actually save money.
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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by eli_gottlieb on Sunday May 01, 2016 @12:16AM (#11604847)
Possibly, but my point was that the actually-effective measures come decades before end-of-life.
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