X-Message-Number: 2012
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 13:56:08 CST
From: Brian Wowk <>
Subject: CRYONICS Economies of Scale

Bobby Hesselbo:
 
> If one could fit in 30000 patients (one per m3), the cost
> would be $1000 each, or $3 per person per year to maintain.
 
        Even amortizing at just 5% a year (essentially just paying 
interest on your capital cost) the cost is $50 per person per year.  
However you are right that the cost is still comparable to what most 
people today pay for the priviledge of dying.
 
        Clearly storage costs will eventually become a negligible part of 
the cost of cryonics.  But what about the other costs?  What you save in 
storage will be eaten up by increasingly advanced suspension protocols.  
It is hard to see good suspension ever costing less than a few tens
of K$.  
 
                                                --- Brian Wowk

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