X-Message-Number: 20309 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:30:22 -0500 From: "Kansas City Homes - " <> Subject: Life insurance and definition of death References: <> > From: Scott Badger <> > Subject: Re: CryoNet #20289 - #20294 > 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. By then, there will be another kind of life insurance :o) - Cryonics Death Insurance. The insurance companies will come up with a way to sell you any product on which they can make money :o). Do you care how you get money from someone - by buying your cookies or by buying a monthly premium for "Cryonics Death Insurance" or as it will be packaged "Second Chance on Life Insurance" :o) Don't worry about that. If and when cryonics becomes a widely or even an emerging possibility, they'll offer a cryonics specific insurance. You will be also able to buy an "ultimate death" insurance :o) in case you are burned or buried :o) Sincerely, IGGY Dybal Your Real Estate Consultant - Kansas City - RE/MAX Best E-mail: mailto: Web site: http://www.iggy.net Office: 913-894-4024 Toll-free: 877-550-IGGY/4449 ed person will make a decision on that? Are you saying that the convict *will*have to be cured of his "pathological" desires to kill, have sex with minors, rape, do drugs? How about then smoke, drink hard liquor, masturbate, be gay or lesbian, have an accent or that scar that my wife left me on my right cheek when we were fooling around? Where is the border line here? This implies that the government accepts cryonics as a means of "rehabilitation" in case cryonics becomes mainstream and *everyone* has this opportunity to be suspended like now buried or cremated. When the government accepts it, only then you can talk that. But even that will stand in the face of the freedoms a convicted criminal will have after his/her death. Or does the government owns you should and your body :o) unless you do your 20 years? But even then when you die and resurrected and finish your 20 years, the society will be so different that laws may look differently at people who come back with criminal backgrounds. Will they even want them revived? Or will it be another experiment grandioso to see what comes of these Neanderthals :o) If the person is suspended, s/he expects the sanctity of the process and restoring him without someone telling him/her what kind of person he'll be. Is Alcor or CI going to put in a clause in the contract that allows them to change my psychology? I don't think this will fly :o) The future if fun... :o) I can tell it already! Sincerely, IGGY Dybal Your Real Estate Consultant - Kansas City - RE/MAX Best E-mail: mailto: Web site: http://www.iggy.net Office: 913-894-4024 Toll-free: 877-550-IGGY/4449 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20309