It's certainly hierarchical for me, too. I plan to sign up for cryonics, and I'd even use a disintegrate-and-reassemble transporter if it were the only way to avoid complete, irreversible death--but I certainly won't be joining Starfleet just for the fun and adventure.
Do you have a hierarchical view of degrees of consciousness? For instance, do you consider general anesthesia worse than a nights sleep? Do you consider brain-rot-death worse than a year-long coma?
I do have the same fear as you. I have a medical condition that has caused me to lose consciousness around 20 times in my life and it has caused me terrible fear. I don't like the idea of cryonics either but I do plan on having my brain frozen because the alternative, in my view, is worse.
I don't like sketchy rope bridges across a chasm, but if I am being chased by pirates, I will sure as heck cross it.