X-Message-Number: 13964 From: Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 03:25:20 EDT Subject: New (?) ideas about financing cryopreservation Robert Ettinger has suggested a form of death insurance operated by cryonics organizations. That may be indeed very interesting, there remains neverthless the case for people too old or too sick to be insured. Here, I suggest a possible formula: -Why not accept a credit without bank? It would works along a line similar to that: From signup date you pay every month/semester/year... a given sum, for example $ 1000/ yrs. This build -up on your account. Whatever the sum is, you are entitled to do a cryopreservation. From that instant you must pay your debt in a given time, using a bank credit or something else, for example selling some real estate, ... The risk would be more limited for the cryonics organization that a mere "in house" insurance scheme... Could anyone elaborate on that idea? On a practical side, it would help a lot if cryonics organizations would accept credit card. This is the norm for sharewares, why not cryonics? Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13964