While this is important info for estimating the sustainability of cryonics orgs (reducing benefits in the cost-benefit analysis), I don’t think it shows that cost estimates are wrong: membership fees are on an annual basis, and can be terminated if you decide to stop using the service, and the life insurance proceeds can be reallocated from cryonics to other applications if you terminate membership. I.e. as estimates of the cost of a few years’ cryonics insurance to an individual today, current estimates are right. As estimates of lifetime expenditures if one wants cryonics protection no matter how expensive it becomes, they are too low.
While this is important info for estimating the sustainability of cryonics orgs (reducing benefits in the cost-benefit analysis), I don’t think it shows that cost estimates are wrong: membership fees are on an annual basis, and can be terminated if you decide to stop using the service, and the life insurance proceeds can be reallocated from cryonics to other applications if you terminate membership. I.e. as estimates of the cost of a few years’ cryonics insurance to an individual today, current estimates are right. As estimates of lifetime expenditures if one wants cryonics protection no matter how expensive it becomes, they are too low.