how many people can we support in the world anyway, if some of 'em stop dying
But at this stage that seems to be primarily a question for the people developing cures for cancer and other fatal diseases, rather than for the people developing cryonics. Cryonics, if it works, won't enable people to avoid death altogether, it just enables what you might call delayed access to a cure which, once invented, will presumably be offered to all cancer patients whose health systems can afford it, not just the people revived from cryonic storage. The former will almost certainly hugely outweigh the latter. It's going to take an awful lot of people signing up for cryonics before the population effect of people being revived and cured is going to outweigh the population effect of better medical care before conventional death (which we're already seeing).
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But at this stage that seems to be primarily a question for the people developing cures for cancer and other fatal diseases, rather than for the people developing cryonics. Cryonics, if it works, won't enable people to avoid death altogether, it just enables what you might call delayed access to a cure which, once invented, will presumably be offered to all cancer patients whose health systems can afford it, not just the people revived from cryonic storage. The former will almost certainly hugely outweigh the latter. It's going to take an awful lot of people signing up for cryonics before the population effect of people being revived and cured is going to outweigh the population effect of better medical care before conventional death (which we're already seeing).