I don’t think it is that simple. Medical procedures involve all kinds of evil sounding actions. Cutting someone open, changing blood, replacing hearts, amputating and what not. Medicine has a generally decent public image, and they get away with whatever they think helps.
My impression is that death is considered something very natural and trying to avoid it is EVIL. Medication is fine,but trying to actually, consciously life longer than one is SUPPOSED TO is bad. If you look at fiction that is usually what you get. Biological life forms in SF are very happy to just life the amount of time they get, without any try to change it.
Also average lifespan is often treated as the lifespan everyone gets. In reality humans have their 80 years, but some make it to 110+ (http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM) while others fade with 50.But there is no public outcry about that. It is accepted and/or ignored.
I noticed how few people take conscious action to reduce risk factors. Being dead just does not factor in at any point. There is the whole notion of living short, but eventful vs. long and boring.
My bet is that a procedure at room temperature, or involving heating the patient up would get the very same ugh-reactions as cryonics gets.
The reaction is independent of the concrete procedure, or its chances of actually working.
I don’t think it is that simple. Medical procedures involve all kinds of evil sounding actions. Cutting someone open, changing blood, replacing hearts, amputating and what not. Medicine has a generally decent public image, and they get away with whatever they think helps.
My impression is that death is considered something very natural and trying to avoid it is EVIL. Medication is fine,but trying to actually, consciously life longer than one is SUPPOSED TO is bad. If you look at fiction that is usually what you get. Biological life forms in SF are very happy to just life the amount of time they get, without any try to change it. Also average lifespan is often treated as the lifespan everyone gets. In reality humans have their 80 years, but some make it to 110+ (http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM) while others fade with 50.But there is no public outcry about that. It is accepted and/or ignored.
I noticed how few people take conscious action to reduce risk factors. Being dead just does not factor in at any point. There is the whole notion of living short, but eventful vs. long and boring.
My bet is that a procedure at room temperature, or involving heating the patient up would get the very same ugh-reactions as cryonics gets. The reaction is independent of the concrete procedure, or its chances of actually working.