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Life insurance is cheaper when young. If you have an accident you can die without having time to sign up.
If. DataPacRat obviously believes both Alcor and CI to be credible options. Do you wish to make a case against that?
Not exceptionally cheaper compared to the money you will spend on it before you will need it. In any case, you can always subscribe to life insurance naming a relative or a charity as beneficiary and then change the beneficiary if needed.
If you die in a car accident your brain will be most likely heavily damaged by direct trauma and/or ischemia before cryopreservation can be attempted.
It's not obvious from what he wrote. He could be reasoning along the lines of a Pascal's wager/Pascal's mugging argument, in which case, he would be incurring in a fallacy.