X-Message-Number: 18300 From: "Jan Coetzee" <> Subject: Cryonics for the Disabled Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:16:33 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C19615.1B055B20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For me cryonics presents a lost opportunity. I have been taking care of my severely cognitively disabled son for twenty three years. Yes, I have put my life on hold for him. I hope one day I will through the aid of cryonics get on with my life. Maybe there are other people in my situation out there that need to hear about cryonics. Disabled people would have problems with cryonics because they are not allowed to have any assets. Not even a cemetery plot. All life insurance have to be declared. Otherwise they will not get SSI or other government help. All their assets have to be hidden under the name of a trustee they that can be trusted. It is possible that they will lose their government support. Even worse the state can seize such hidden assets to pay past expenses. Note it would cost the State $100,000 a year to take care of a very disabled person. Very old people fall in this category. Maybe that is why old people do not sign up for cryonics. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C19615.1B055B20 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18300