Membership and preservation are two different bills, and most of the confusion about what this costs comes from adding them together.
Membership is small, recurring, and paid while you are alive. The preservation fee is large, paid once, and usually settled by an insurance policy after you die.
This article is about the first one: what it costs, what it buys, and what changes if you never pay it.
Three ways to pay it
- Monthly: 50 euros a month
- Yearly: 500 euros a year
- Lifetime: 15,000 euros, paid once
The yearly rate saves a little against the monthly one. The lifetime option suits people who would rather not carry a recurring charge for the next several decades.
There are reduced rates for students and low-income members, because a flat fee is not flat if there is no margin behind it.
The lifetime option is not a separate product
The 15,000 euros is credited against your preservation fee later.
A lifetime member choosing whole-body preservation therefore nets out at 185,000 euros rather than 200,000.
That is the one place where a membership payment touches the preservation bill. The monthly and yearly options do not reduce it.
What the fee actually buys
Readiness, which is the one thing that cannot be bought after the fact.
It keeps standby teams trained and deployable at any hour, and maintains the equipment and vehicles they use, including the biostasis ambulance.
It funds the contract and funding administration, so the paperwork is settled in advance rather than landing on your family at the worst possible moment.
And it holds your preservation fee at the member price.
The reason readiness is worth paying for continuously is that cellular decay starts the moment the heart stops. A team that is already trained, equipped and on call is what shortens that interval, and the interval is most of what determines preservation quality.
The same fee also covers the Lifespan Extension Program, which is the part of membership you use while you are alive.
The Lifespan Extension Program
There is one plan and one price. It covers biostasis, Lifespan Extension, or both, and taking the health side costs nothing extra.
The program is about the decades before the arrangement at the end is ever needed. It runs in the Memberzone, and it works like this.
- You complete a health questionnaire covering sleep, activity and daily habits.
- You upload your blood panel and body composition results. The values are read out of the documents, then checked and released by a member of our team before they appear in your account.
- Your markers are grouped into focus areas, each shown against its reference range: heart and circulation, metabolic health, body composition, organ function, blood and immunity, hormones and brain, recovery and lifestyle.
- You get one video consultation a month with a Lifespan Extension expert.
- You can connect a wearable, so sleep, recovery and activity trends arrive without you uploading anything.
Health data is treated differently from the rest of your membership. It sits behind its own consent, which you give separately and can decline, and declining changes nothing about your biostasis arrangement.
The program shows you values, ranges and a written explanation of what each one means. It does not diagnose anything and it does not stand in for your doctor.
The reasoning behind adding it is set out in the vision of Tomorrow.bio membership: a membership whose only payoff arrives after you die leaves most of a life unattended.
What changes if you are not a member
Non-members can still be preserved. The fee is higher.
Whole-body is 230,000 euros instead of 200,000. Brain-only is 115,000 instead of 75,000.
The gap is the cost of mobilising for somebody the system was not already standing by for. A member has years of paid readiness behind them; a non-member is asking the same system to start from a standing stop.
Note that the brain-only gap is larger in proportion: 40,000 euros on a 75,000 euro fee. The full comparison sets both out side by side.
Cancelling, and where to check what you have
Membership can be cancelled at any time. It is meant to earn its keep month by month.
Your coverage details, contract and payment status are in the Memberzone, alongside the Lifespan Extension pages. Getting started with the Memberzone is the tour.
One thing worth checking there rather than assuming: a lapsed membership moves you back to the non-member price, and it stops the standby arrangement that the fee was paying for.
The preservation fee buys the procedure. The membership fee buys the state of preparedness that determines how good that procedure can be, and the health programme you use in the years before it. Signing up sets all of it in place at once.
TL;DR: Membership fees fund continuous readiness, equipment and member services. They are separate from the money required for the cryopreservation procedure and long-term storage.
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