[MayeulC]

I have also been thinking about this lately.

Imagine for a moment that cryogenization technology became available tomorrow. Would that help? Should we start forcing everyone to spend 3 years in cryo sleep every year, thus extending everyone's lifespan 400%?

This is far-fetched and just sci-fi for now, but interesting to think about nevertheless: should you go into cryo sleep while you are waiting for the right job offer? Should we cryogenize refugees while we are waiting to find them some shelter after a disaster or a war happens? People surely take a lot less resources if you can stack them, and they are not moving, feeding, etc.

Something like this would require us rethinking our ethics and society, yet it would be a very welcome way to start thinking more about the future.

[vanniv]

If you would like to read some sci-fi that plays with the idea of skipping through life via cryosleep, try The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card.

It's one of his earliest works, so it isn't as well-produced as some of his later stuff, but it explores some very interesting ideas.

(This story began life as a different novel called Hot Sleep. Having read both, I honestly can't remember which parts are in which version, but Card himself says he considers The Worthing Saga to be the official version)

(hint: in Card's story, cryotech created a dystopian, not utopian society)

[thrax]

Card is a Mormon. Not surprised that his fiction is dystopian.

[DennisP]

Not all his fiction is dystopian.

[pmoriarty]

Considering the suicide rate, if such technology was available, you'd probably get a lot of takers.