X-Message-Number: 1208 Date: 19 Sep 92 03:46:09 EDT From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: Re: cryonics: #1198 - #1205 This is a question to Ralph Merkle re his comment that people who are terminal can get life insurance. I would be very interested indeed to know where to go for that purpose --- while I may not, anymore, claim to be terminal, further life insurance seems to be beyond my reach. From anyone. This worries me because with all the financial instability going on now, I really have no protection against any possibility that all my insurors might go under. Since I was the one who suggested that recent life insurance be used as a test, I would also point out that IF life insurance WERE available to terminal people, then the conditions would be such that we could easily exclude THAT variety of life insurance from consideration. To Carlos I also have a question: just what laws or regulations forbid us from using life insurance as one test of health? We ourselves are not putting ourselves out as sellers of life insurance. My own reading of the law (NO, I'm not a lawyer) suggests that there are no laws or regulations forbidding us from using life insurance as ONE test of entry. A physical examination by doctors of our choice and paid for by the applicant would allow not only those who were healthy and had (older) life insurance to devote to cryonics, but also would cost them a good deal less than one more life insurance policy --- if they chose to take that route. Best, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1208