X-Message-Number: 258 From att!la.tis.com!fermat!r Tue Dec 11 14:27:56 PST 1990 remote from whscad1 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 90 14:27:56 PST From: fermat! (Richard Schroeppel) Message-Id: <> To: Subject: December Harper's magazine mentions Cryonics This is from the December 1990 Harper's Index (page 15). Number of the 26 human bodies frozen in the hope of being brought back to life that are in California: 24 [source: Alcor Foundation (Riverside, California)] Estimated amount a $100,000 Individual Reanimation Account will yield in 2090: $219,976,130 (see page 27) [source: Reanimation Foundation (Vaduz, Liechtenstein)] On page 27, there is an excerpt: [Brochure] VERY LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS From "How Rich Will You Be?" a brochure distributed by the Reanimation Foundation, an investment fund based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The foundation offers investment accounts for individuals who plan to have their bodies frozen at death in the hope that they can be brought back to life in the future. An Individual Reanimation Account requires a minimum balance of $10,000. Q: How long will it take for me to be reanimated? A: Experts predict that in 50 to 150 years medical science will develop the technology to bring suspended patients back to life. How long it will take for you to be reanimated will depend on how well you're suspended and on your physical condition at the time you're suspended. Q: If it takes a hundred years until I'm reanimated, how much money will I receive? A: If you assume a conservative average annual rate of return of 8 percent on your investment, the amount of money you will receive if you are reanimated in a hundred years is as follows: If you invest $100,000, you will receive $219,976,130. If you invest $10,000,000, you will receive $21,997,613,000. Q: Who will be investing my money? A: A major Swiss bank with an excellent reputation for safe and prudent investments. Q: But what about inflation? Won't my money be worth less in a hundred years? A: No. In a hundred years, your money will be worth more than today because of advances in science and technology. A hundred years ago a millionaire could buy relatively little with his money. Today even the modest sum of $10,000 can buy you an automobile, a color television set, and an airplane trip to Europe. A hundred years ago, the wealthiest person on Earth couldn't buy the kind of medical care available to anyone on welfare today. In a hundred years, you'll be able to buy youth and perfect health for centuries, super intelligence, super strength, super good looks, and trips to distant worlds throughout the galaxy. Q: What will I have to pay for these things? A: Probably not very much. History has shown that improvements in technology produce increasingly better products for less and less money. In a hundred years there will be utterly fantastic products -- such as miniature cell-repair machines that could restore people to life, health, and youth -- which may cost very little. <end of article from Harper's> Rich Schroeppel Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=258