Is voluntarily starving to death a drawback?
Voluntarily..? They don't expect to starve to death, they just expect that while they do their meaningful conscious-expanding profound activities, someone else will muck around in the dirt planting and harvesting. Food comes from a store, dontcha know that? and without money everything in the store is free.
How much money would it take to engineer biological immortality for at least half of the world's population, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?