General anesthesia kills 1 in 100,000 patients, and that's with medical personnel standing by in actual hospitals, much less a skeleton crew of people strapped

General anesthesia kills 1 in 100,000 patients, and that's with medical personnel standing by in actual hospitals, much less a skeleton crew of people strapped to a spacebound elevator. We don't understand ourselves or our bodies anywhere near as well as we can understand or advance materials science. My money is on new cables before reliable stasis.