Alcor has a history of fighting and winning legal battles to preserve patients when patients wanted to be preserved and living relatives did not.
Alcor has a history of taking in patients from failed providers.
Alcor has been around longer.
I worry that CI’s lower cost means they are creating externalities that need to be picked up by other parts of the system, in particular around funding research.
On net I think of Alcor as the more trusted option, and consider it worth it if you can afford it (and if you can really afford it, you can sign up with both as I know a few people have).
On net I think of Alcor as the more trusted option, and consider it worth it if you can afford it (and if you can really afford it, you can sign up with both as I know a few people have).
Hmm, curious if this results in potentially weird logistical snafus if they both try to recover your body at once? (Regardless, this is sort of intriguing and I’m surprised I hadn’t heard someone suggest it before)
I chose Alcor based on a few things:
Alcor has a history of fighting and winning legal battles to preserve patients when patients wanted to be preserved and living relatives did not.
Alcor has a history of taking in patients from failed providers.
Alcor has been around longer.
I worry that CI’s lower cost means they are creating externalities that need to be picked up by other parts of the system, in particular around funding research.
On net I think of Alcor as the more trusted option, and consider it worth it if you can afford it (and if you can really afford it, you can sign up with both as I know a few people have).
Hmm, curious if this results in potentially weird logistical snafus if they both try to recover your body at once? (Regardless, this is sort of intriguing and I’m surprised I hadn’t heard someone suggest it before)