Here’s a good opportunity to test your motivations. Think about the rationale you currently harbor for cryonics. Think specifically about which of the doubts you currently harbor, if any, would need to be settled before parting with your money. Roughly how much time and energy would you devote to this?
Once you’ve done this, read this comment on OB (if you’ve done so already, my comment is probably a waste). The issue isn’t so much the accuracy of those claims, but the nature of them. Did you have a good reason to believe that they’re handling their money wisely prior to being forced to consider it? Given the above exercise in settling your doubts, do you think you would have done the necessary homework to find out prior to signing up? If not, then I’d be inclined to treat that as evidence that your decision was at least partially the product of irrational persuasion.
Clearing up my meta-ethical confusion regarding utilitarianism. From The “Intuitions” Behind “Utilitarianism”:
Realizing that the expression of any set of values must inherently “sum to 1” was quite an abrupt and obviously-true-in-retrospect revelation.