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by Cpoll 2113 days ago
Are the carbon emissions that big of a deal? Every house in North America has at least one freezer. What scale are you envisioning when you say "mass"?

I've sometimes fancied that the discovery of immortality might be good for the environment, it changes the incentives for the biggest abusers. With that said, I'm not entirely confident of that in practice.

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> Every house in North America has at least one freezer.

Cryonics requires the maintenance of a temperature far colder than any household freezer.

> What scale are you envisioning when you say "mass"?

I just mean that it might hardly seem acceptable to freeze more terminally ill people than just a few ultra-wealthy eccentrics.