It’s only a crazy thing to do if you are pretty sure you will need/want the insurance for the rest of your life. If you aren’t sure, then you are paying a bunch of your investment money for insurance you might decide you don’t need (and in fact, you definitely won’t need financially once you have self-funded).
If you are convinced that cryonics is a good investment, and don’t have the money to fund it out of current capital, then that seems like a good reason to buy some kind of life insurance, and a universal life policy is probably one of the better ways to do it.
It’s probably a bit more expensive than buying term life and investing the difference[1], if you can and will invest reasonably well (it’s not actually all that complicated, but it is just enough so to be vulnerable to akrasia problems). Someone who geeks out on financial decisions and doesn’t find them uncomfortable or boring work may be better off doing it themselves. Others should go for the UL policy.
If you have the money to fund it, some kind of trust is likely to be a much cheaper option for legal protection than an insurance policy.
[1] there are some tax advantages to investing within the UL that can make it less expensive than term+invest for those who have already maxed out their tax-deferred savings in 401(k)/IRA/etc.
It’s only a crazy thing to do if you are pretty sure you will need/want the insurance for the rest of your life. If you aren’t sure, then you are paying a bunch of your investment money for insurance you might decide you don’t need (and in fact, you definitely won’t need financially once you have self-funded).
If you are convinced that cryonics is a good investment, and don’t have the money to fund it out of current capital, then that seems like a good reason to buy some kind of life insurance, and a universal life policy is probably one of the better ways to do it.
It’s probably a bit more expensive than buying term life and investing the difference[1], if you can and will invest reasonably well (it’s not actually all that complicated, but it is just enough so to be vulnerable to akrasia problems). Someone who geeks out on financial decisions and doesn’t find them uncomfortable or boring work may be better off doing it themselves. Others should go for the UL policy.
If you have the money to fund it, some kind of trust is likely to be a much cheaper option for legal protection than an insurance policy.
[1] there are some tax advantages to investing within the UL that can make it less expensive than term+invest for those who have already maxed out their tax-deferred savings in 401(k)/IRA/etc.