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Mine took a similar length of time, though I went for whole-body. Between that and my age the insurance premium cost is an order of magnitude higher than yours, but all things considered it's pretty cheap if you've got any kind of tech job.
Question: Wouldn't brain-only be better, at least at this time?
My intuition suggests that the sort of technology required for repairing a body of all the damage from the expanding ice would necessarily imply technology required for synthesizing a new body, body transplants are relatively trivial, and plus brain only would presumably mean a higher quality preservation of brain tissue relative to whole body due to being more invasive, right? (Counterarguments: small chance that body implements far more of our personality than currently realized, small chance the future decides growing new brainless bodies is unethical)
I don't really care about recovery of the body. I included it for raw materials and any other information it can provide or that might be necessary to preserve me. Hormones and other chemical signaling aren't just in the brain - neurons and nerve connections have most of the important data as we understand things, but not all of it.
Yeah, I'll probably look into whole-body cryonics too once I get a job. Disability really isn't enough to pay for that kind of thing, but it's well worth it.