X-Message-Number: 4485 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: Re: CryoNet #4482 - #4484 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:10:45 -0700 (PDT) Hi again! Again to Mr. Leitl: Ettinger is right. I neglected to mention life insurance; there are companies RIGHT NOW which will allow people to cash in their life insurance while living if they discover that they are likely to die soon. Moreover, a scrutiny of every life insurance policy I've ever heard of or know about tells me that after a relatively short period of time (one year to about 3) life insurance companies do commit to paying out even if the subject of the life insurance policy commits suicide. If you have a policy, take a look at it. This fact does mean that you can't (legally) buy life insurance when you find out that you suffer from an incurable and probably fatal illness, and THEN commit suicide. And if you did try to do so illegally, the life insurance company is within its rights to ask for refund of all the money it paid you or your estate ... OR those who froze you. This in its way is really like the situation with cryonics societies: it's easy to sign up when you're healthy, very hard to do so when you aren't. I'm a bit surprized that you don't know this, since it suggests that you've never bought insurance. But then, not everyone does. If you are wealthy enough, you could simply pay your cryonics society the necessary cash. In any case, Best wishes and long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4485