Nisan comments on Open thread, 14-20 July 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: curiousepic 15 July 2014 06:50:21PM 4 points [-]

I'm an EA and interested in signing up for cryonics. After cryocrastinating for a few years (ok I guess I don't get to say "after" until I actually sign up), I've realized that I should definitely sign up for life insurance, because of the ability to change the beneficiary. I place a low probability on cryonics working right now, but I can claim a charity or a Donor Advised Fund as the beneficiary until I place a sufficient probability on suspension technology working. In the future, I can change it back if I change my mind, etc.

Any issues that might come into this? If no one sees any flaws, I'm committing to sign up for life insurance with this plan in mind by or during the next open thread, and making a more prominent post about this strategy for any EA+Cryonics people.

Comment author: Nisan 17 July 2014 01:14:36AM 0 points [-]

It might be worth looking into which life insurance companies are friendly to cryonics.