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khafra comments on Life insurance for Cryonics, how many years? - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: roland 23 May 2014 05:15PM

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Comment author: khafra 27 May 2014 05:35:31PM 1 point [-]

Your chances of dying before middle age are relatively small. Your chances of dying in a way that renders your brain preservable, before middle age, are astronomically small. Thus, although whole life costs around 2^3 as much as term, whole life provides something around 2^8 the benefit.

Comment author: brazil84 29 May 2014 08:52:09AM 2 points [-]

Well that assumes that you do nothing to fund cryonics but purchase life insurance, right? And it also assumes that the economics of cryonics are basically static, right?