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I'm the one who pledged. And it was £100 as I remember, not just $100 -- you shouldn't decrease other people's precommitments like that, Stuart, it's bad for them :-)
I was thinking afterwards that I might have taken the planning fallacy into account more: If I have to travel to the US to get a health exam, I might postpone that to the next time I'll be in the US for other purposes, even if it delays signing up.
Oops, me bad - I shouldn't diminish the amount of money I'm owed! ;-)
I had exams in the UK, with my normal doctor, nothing special.
I already said this to Stuart in e-mail, but just to not leave the thread here hanging: Yay! Glad to hear that's not a problem, then! :-)
(More on why I thought it was in the cousin comment.)
By far the exam is the stupidiest requirement for cryonicists. Why not a test done elsewhere? I thought I was among the few who actually had to do it in the states.
As for why someone might think they may have to do this, from Rudi Hoffman's page on non-U.S. cryonics requirements:
Stuart, as it turns out, has used a UK-based company, 415 Independent Financial Planners -- fortunately there's enough cryonicists in the UK that there is actually a firm here that has some expertise (see here for some info), and at least Cryonics Institute has investigated and approved UK-based life insurance as a way of funding cryo with them (same link as above for more info). I don't know for sure whether Alcor accepts UK-based insurance, but they also refer you to 415 if you're in the UK.