X-Message-Number: 12381 Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 19:11:48 -0700 From: Olaf Henny <> Subject: Discussion On Trusts In Message #12371 Carol Shaw <> wrote: >At this month's Alcor Northern California meeting, we will continue our >discussion of cryonics estate planning and trusts. I live a long way from Northern California and will therefore be unable to attend that meeting, although it does strike a chord of intense interest on my part. I presume your discussion of trusts will not only cover trusts for the purpose of covering suspension costs, but also those, which may provide some initial funding after revival. While I take an indefinitely extended life anyway I can get it, I would find some funding providing financial independence for at least the initial period of acclimatisation to the progress we will no doubt encounter, most desirable. While I have not pursued this in any depth, it appears to me that the opening of a trust, which will carry on in our favour after we are legally dead and be available after revival will pose no unsurmountable problems other than the matter of trusting, that the trust and the legal framework which covers it, will survive. The big problem, I see, is one of identifying ourselves as the rightful owners, if we don't know in which form we will be revived. If biological, there is the genetic code as well as retinal patterns, hand prints and such. But what if we are uploaded? A relatively modest account could over a long period compound to a substantive sum, which might tempt all kinds of insiders with access to our genetic material to hijack such accounts through cloning the body parts needed for ID or read the digital information necessary to obtain the funds illegally. That done, the incentive is huge to sabotage our revival. :( If the above is paranoid, then at least it could be material to be integrated into a book about cryonics. :) Best, Olaf Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12381