I had a recent covid-insanity-related thought on the topic of suicide.
For the non-religious, suicide is going to sleep forever instead of just for the night.
What if there was an option to go to sleep for a decade? Would people want that? Would it be even legal to research?
Seems like it would have applications for space travel.
I wonder what the moral implications would be... (and Judge Dredd would have predicted this).
Fun facts, there is a group of seven young men believed to live between the time of Jesus and Muhammad, so called The Seven Sleepers. They and a single dog, are reportedly slept in a cave for exactly 300 years (309 years adjusted for lunar calendar) as mentioned in the Quran. The interesting part is that this story is not mentioned in the New or Old Testaments due the time it happened. This story famously becomes part of the very difficult questions, created by the Jews of Madinah (old city name Hijaz) to help the non-believers Arabs to challenge Muhammad of his authenticity as one of the prophets sent by God. The story is recalled in one of the Chapters of the Quran, Al-Kahfi (meaning the The Cave).
As a way for people to escape a bad present in hopes of a better future, I don't think it would make much sense. The only people who could afford it probably have a pretty good present.
They are called "johatsu" or "evaporated" people.
Here's an article of a book I found on it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_(short_story_collect...
EDIT: And even if you do diversity with a hefty bankroll, you could be investing in, say, late 2007, just before the start of the Great Recession and its attendant massacre of so many stock prices — or in February 2000, just before the dot-com bubble started to deflate (a painful memory for many of us).
But point taken; if the years are not average you might wake up broke.