We've talked to hundreds of Tomorrow.bio members about their experience joining. We ask about their motivations, their concerns, what made them finally decide. But one thing comes up over and over that we didn't expect: the overwhelming sense of relief they felt the moment after signing.
Not excitement. Not satisfaction. Relief.
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The weight you didn't know you were carrying
"I didn't realize how much it was weighing on me," one member told us. "I'd been researching for eight months. Every time I saw anything about death or aging, I'd think 'I should really sign up for cryopreservation.' It was always there in the back of my mind. And then I finally did it, and it was like putting down a backpack I'd been carrying around forever."
Another member described it differently: "It felt like I'd been holding my breath. I knew I wanted to do it. I knew I was going to do it eventually. But I kept putting it off, and that 'eventually' just sat there, unfinished. The second I submitted the paperwork, I could breathe again."
This pattern repeats in conversation after conversation. People describe feeling lighter, calmer, like they'd finally handled something that had been nagging at them. Not because signing up changed their mortality. But because they'd stopped procrastinating on something they knew they wanted to do.
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The decision was already made
Here's what many members realize afterward: they'd already decided to sign up, sometimes months or even years before they actually did it. The research phase had ended. They'd concluded cryopreservation made sense for them. They wanted to do it.
But they stayed in this weird limbo, technically decided but not actually signed up. Living with a decision made but not acted on. That limbo creates constant low-level stress you don't fully notice until it's gone.
"I kept telling myself I needed to be absolutely sure," one member said. "But I was sure. I was just afraid of committing. The day I signed up, I realized I'd been sure for at least six months. I'd just been procrastinating and calling it 'being thorough.'"
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What people wish they'd known
When we ask members what they wish they'd known before signing up, the most common answer is: "I wish I'd known how much better I'd feel afterward. I would have done it years earlier."
Not one person has said they wish they'd researched longer. Not one person has said they wish they'd waited. The regret is always about waiting too long, not about signing up too soon.
"I wasted two years procrastinating," one member said. "Two years where if something had happened to me, I wouldn't have been preserved. And for what? I didn't learn anything new in those two years. I just put off something I knew I wanted to do."
