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Are you serious? You conflated the fame of a firefighter who dies in the line of duty (which doesn't even last very long) with the immortality of actually living forever.
Ah! Thanks for the clarification -- I don't know why people thought I was talking about fame, but given that they did, that would certainly account for the down votes!
What I mean is that in most cases where you die in the line of duty, your body will be recoverable and brain preservable. Yes, there are ways for this to not happen -- but there are also ways for it to not happen when you die of old age. Any claim that cryonics makes taking hazardous jobs irrational from a self-preservation viewpoint would have to provide some basis for believing the latter to have better odds than the former.
Ah, your original comment makes more sense with that explanation.
I had originally interpreted your statement
as meaning that the risks/costs and rewards of cryonics was a wash, and with that framing, I misinterpreted the rest of it.