I don't want Cryonics companies to focus on selling fantasies, I want them to focus on making the technology work.
The value of giving people 'peace of mind' is low, and there are already tons of religions out there that do that. The value of actually letting people live again after death would be immense.
Focus on reality.
Definitely. Before such technology comes into existence, cryonic preservation for future Resurrection is fantasy.
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?