wedrifid comments on An observation on cryocrastination - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 22 July 2009 09:05:50PM 7 points [-]

Expressing lifetime or otherwise long term cost in terms of "cost per day" is insulting to readers' intelligence and is an extremely dishonest attempt at making things appear cheaper than they really are. Please never ever do this. Even worse is pretending life insurance costs stay the same for life.

Now the real costs are between $25,000 and $155,000 in addition to annual membership fees, signup fees, transportation fees after death etc. That's how much you have to save during your lifetime to get cryopreserved.

Of course you can get life insurance, but by the basic laws of economics, amount of money you can expect to pay for your life insurance is higher than

You pay $10 a month now that you're young and healthy, but it will get steeply higher once you're old and sick (assuming insurance company doesn't do any tricks, decides to terminate your insurance once you get sick, falls out of business etc.), so that the expected cost to you gets above the amount of money you get from insurance.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 July 2009 09:43:44PM 3 points [-]

Expressing lifetime or otherwise long term cost in terms of "cost per day" is insulting to readers' intelligence and is an extremely dishonest attempt at making things appear cheaper than they really are. Please never ever do this. Even worse is pretending life insurance costs stay the same for life.

As an intelligent reader I found the 'cost per day' information useful. When considering what it would take to sign up for cryogenics this is exactly the information I need to consider. Numbers like $155,000 may be relevant to actual decision making but not to procrastinating with rationalisations that can be seen here.