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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Sci fi fans/ funding/signing up
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:41:51 +0100

Whilst I agree wholeheartedly with   concerning the idea of
cryonics organisations offering a "turnkey" sign up package, I do think that
there are many practical problems with this.

1. The matter involves (ultimately) the transfer of large sums of money -
comparable to buying a house in some parts of the world. No two people's
financial circumstances are exactly the same and therefore what is good
advice for one may not be so for another.

2. The professions are not charitable organisations - they are there to earn
their practitioners money. Any system that removes the need for expensive
personal visits and consultations is getting in the way of this and
therefore there will be pressure against it. That pressure is mainly felt by
legislation that would make it hard for cryonics organisations to do
anything that can be construed as offering financial advice (and conversely
for financial advisors to do anything that suggests they are offering
cryonics services.)

At present the organisations seem to offer various routes for funding (ie
insurance, pre-payment, trusts) and it is up to the member to do his own
research as to which is best. This is I am sure preferable to offering only
one method and insisting on everyone using it - they may not be able to
afford that one method or if they can it could be financially wasteful in
their circumstances to use it.

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----- Original Message -----
> Message #19060
> From: 
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:39:28 EDT
> Subject: Sci fi fans/ funding/signing up
> I would propose that cryonics orgs would
> consider providing lawyers for modest fees for boilerplate wills, trusts,
> etc.  And why not contract for life insurance with an insurer?  You
wouldn't
> have to require people to use your insurance, but it might make things
much
> easier for people to sign up.  And its easy to use the web for these
> services- even the legal services.

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