I've always been afraid of dying: every lurch of a plane in turbulence gets my palms sweaty; every nearly-avoided mishap I encounter while driving makes me vow to drive even less than I currently do. I won't even consider going on a cruise until I learn to swim.
Cryonics or not, if you die in a plane crash, car crash or ship sinking you will not come back.
This is almost certainly true for most plane crashes or ship sinkings.
However, it is not necessarily true of a car crash, and this is a common misconception. In most motor vehicle accidents, individuals do not die instantaneously, and it can take many hours or even days for death to be pronounced.
This is why, for example, people are more likely to die if their car crashes in a rural area than an urban one, where they have less access to hospitals.
If you have standby services in place, and they are able to get to the hospital in a reasonable interval, th...
I wrote a blog post arguing that people sign up for cryo more for peace of mind than for immortality. This suggests that cryo organizations should market towards the former desire than the latter (you can think of it as marketing to near mode rather than far mode, in Hansonian terms).
http://specterdefied.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-cryo-membership-buys-peace-of-mind.html
For those signed up already, does peace-of-mind resonate as a benefit of your membership?
If you are not a cryonics member, what would make you decide that it is a good idea?