The immediate benefit of helping others now seems to considerably outweigh the selfish act of self-preservation
Actually, I believe there is an interesting case to be made that brain preservation has immense public goods value.
The actual process of future resurrection - if possible - will revolve around statistical inference; it will necessarily involve a large amount of informed simulation/induction on the part of future AI.
The human cortex contains a model of the universe from the perspective of one observer, and other humans/agents are the most complex objects our brains must model. So the key information content of one particular human mind is not localized to a particular brain - it is instead distributed across many brains.
I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean when you say this:
So the key information content of one particular human mind is not localized to a particular brain
Are you saying that that the universe is part all minds, not just one particular persons? Can you explain what you mean more clearly?
I wrote an article about the process of signing up for cryo since I couldn't find any such accounts online. If you have questions about the sign-up process, just ask.
A few months ago, I signed up for Alcor's brain-only cryopreservation. The entire process took me 11 weeks from the day I started till the day I received my medical bracelet (the thing that’ll let paramedics know that your dead body should be handled by Alcor). I paid them $90 for the application fee. From now on, every year I’ll pay $530 for Alcor membership fees, and also pay $275 for my separately purchased life insurance.
http://specterdefied.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-to-sign-up-for-alcor-cryo.html