Joining CI and then switching to Alcor later on to take advantage of perceived greater financial stability seems like defecting in the PD
I would hope their maintenance function is funded in a way that doesn't depend on new contracts. Otherwise I'd have very low confidence in their long-term viability. So if switching contracts undermines CI, you don't want to be registered with CI to begin with and your actions will have little likelihood of affecting someone who is already maintained by CI.
Actually, I was thinking the other way around-- paying dues at CI and then not using their services can only be good for CI, right?
But not paying a few decades of dues at Alcor and then using their services may break one of their assumptions ("X percent of people that want to be frozen will join for Y decades before actually getting frozen"). If that's the case, someone doing that would effectively be freeloading on all the people who did sign up early and pay dues for decades. I imagine that Alcor expects a lot of people to sign up later in life rather than earlier, and that is priced into their dues. However, I'd be surprised if they expect everyone to do that.
I want to sign up for cryonic suspension. I haven't done so yet because I haven't been able to decide which organization to use. I'm not expecting you guys to choose for me, but it would be very helpful if those of you who are signed up (or will sign up) would say which organization you went with and why.
I've found the following three organizations. Did I miss any that I should be considering?
I'm in the US midwest area, if that will make a difference. My goal would be to maximize the chance of this working. My sub-goal would be to spend the least amount of money. I'm not old yet, so I expect to be able to get funding from life insurance.