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Another place Pascal's wager fails on is the cost one has to pay for believing (such as attending services, time/money for religious holidays, ect.). In Cryonics case, it is a literal price, the cost of keeping you frozen.
So, what this boils down to is calculating the utilities for the probability of being able to live in the future vs. the value of the money that you and your family could have used for something else.
Pascal's wager does not fail there. It would hold up under torture, early death and poison that transforms your blood into fire ants too. Cryonics is not nearly so robust in that particular respect.