Cold sleep, while dangerous, is time that doesn’t count against you. You’re in hibernation. Suspended animation. You go into cold sleep, and if you wake up a month later that month doesn’t count against the time the universe has allotted to you.

So when you are going on a mission for Outcomes Unlimited, coldsleep is a weirdly attractive option. Say you are going to have to make two jumps. That’s at least two weeks of your life, probably a bit more depending on the ship’s schedule, wasted sitting on a ship. I know I know - people study, they read, they exercise during that time. Still, it’s a lot of time spent on the job that you don’t get back. So assuming the cold berths are well-maintained, and that there’s a good medic on duty to wake you up at the end of the trip, and that you do in fact wake up, “travelling low” isn’t a horrible option.

At any rate, I’d like to thank the poor dead bastard we found in that last ship, who managed to hit the defrost button before the lunatics killed him.