X-Message-Number: 20302
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:17:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Badger <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20289 - #20294

In Message #20294, Bob Ettinger writes
Scott Badger writes in part:

>> Indeed, [insurance companies] might well decide to
pay
>> out on life insurance policies only on the
condition
>> that a body be cremated.

> No. They pay off on a death certificate, and the 
> actuarial statistics are not affected by what
> happens after legal death. Insurance companies don't
> lose with cryonics--they win, because they sell 
> additional policies and the actuarial statistics are
> not changed.

> Robert Ettinger

Yes, but my point was that if cryonics someday becomes
a successful and accepted medical procedure and the
patient is only considered to be in stasis, then
Coroners will have no reason to issue a death
certificate. No death certificate, no life insurance.
Cryonics may be a last ditch medical option when the
cure for something isn't known yet or whatever, but
who isn't going to want to use that option if cryonics
is shown to work. Some I'm sure, but not most.

=====
Scott Badger, Ph.D.
Member: ALCOR, Extropy Insitute, Life Extension Foundation
Instructor/Researcher-University of Idaho
Just released: "PHENOM"- my Transhumanist CD (www.mp3.com/scottbadger)

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