I know some people who (at least used to) maintain a group pool of cash to fund the preservation of whoever died first (at which point the pool would need to be refilled). So if you’re unlucky first to die out of N people, you only pay 1/N of the full price, and if you’re lucky (last to die) you eventually pay about lnN+0.6 times the price, but at least you get more time to earn the money. Not sure how it was all structured legally. Of course if you’re really pressed for time it may be hard to convince other people for such an arrangement.
I know some people who (at least used to) maintain a group pool of cash to fund the preservation of whoever died first (at which point the pool would need to be refilled). So if you’re unlucky first to die out of N people, you only pay 1/N of the full price, and if you’re lucky (last to die) you eventually pay about lnN+0.6 times the price, but at least you get more time to earn the money. Not sure how it was all structured legally. Of course if you’re really pressed for time it may be hard to convince other people for such an arrangement.
Fundraisers have helped in the past: https://alcor.org/Library/html/casesummary2643.html—although it fell quite short of the sticker price, and ultimately Alcor had to foot most of the bill anyway.