so much thinking about alternatives
Speaking as someone who tried getting a concrete price estimate, the process can stand to be much improved. I had/will have to (if I follow through):
Get convinced that cryo is worth digging into (maybe call this step “0”).
Figure out where to get price info (this took another chunk of time until I ran across some useful Less Wrong posts) for life insurance related stuff.
Contact a life insurance person (as a cold call)
Hand over some personal info.
Get a pile of PDFs in return along with finding out that I still have to...
Decide between different cryo organizations. 6 a) Find out info about the organizations’ recurring fees. 6 b) Do research into each organization
Decide which cryo approach to take.
Read over all the stuff from step 5.
Talk to the organization from step 6 about the physical logistics such as the wrist band thingy.
Make a final Y/N decision
Hunt down notary(ies) and witness(es) (?) 11 a) Make appointments with everyone
Fill out the papers from the life insurance people
Fill out the papers from the cryo organization.
Sign stuff.
Sign more stuff.
Mail everything
At any time between steps 1 and 16, the process can fall completely apart.
Speaking as someone who tried getting a concrete price estimate, the process can stand to be much improved. I had/will have to (if I follow through):
Get convinced that cryo is worth digging into (maybe call this step “0”).
Figure out where to get price info (this took another chunk of time until I ran across some useful Less Wrong posts) for life insurance related stuff.
Contact a life insurance person (as a cold call)
Hand over some personal info.
Get a pile of PDFs in return along with finding out that I still have to...
Decide between different cryo organizations. 6 a) Find out info about the organizations’ recurring fees. 6 b) Do research into each organization
Decide which cryo approach to take.
Read over all the stuff from step 5.
Talk to the organization from step 6 about the physical logistics such as the wrist band thingy.
Make a final Y/N decision
Hunt down notary(ies) and witness(es) (?) 11 a) Make appointments with everyone
Fill out the papers from the life insurance people
Fill out the papers from the cryo organization.
Sign stuff.
Sign more stuff.
Mail everything
At any time between steps 1 and 16, the process can fall completely apart.