X-Message-Number: 11014 From: Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 10:40:19 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #11005 - #11010 To Steve Bridge I am not an accountant or a lawyer, nor do I know anything about estate planning and I do not mean to drag out ths discussion of escrow accounts however, I am a Real Estate Developer and we do this all the time and there is not any work to speak of. I have clients that will enter into a deal and leave a deposit with the Brokerage Agency which they put in an escrow account. This is not income to the Brokers and they release it upon request. For the Brokers it is a non-event. The only work required is to make a record of the deposit. I have monies that have been sitting in their for years that I have just never bothered to collect, at least not yet. So it occured to me, why couldn't this work for Alcor, an organization with an obvious interest in making this work. If not Alcor, a separate entity created for this purpose overseen by Alcor. Alcor(or whoever) could even be paid for this service and still be non-profit. Trusting that our money will still be there in 500 years is difficult enough, but if we have to trust someone, who can we trust more than Alcor? I am sure that there are some techinical problems with this, but reading the discussions on money these past few months, it seems that we are all trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Rather that try and make something work that just doesn't in our current system, maybe we should focus on the path of least resistance. Which method has the fewest obstacles to overcome? Rick Pierce Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11014