X-Message-Number: 4638
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #4631 - #4633
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:22:40 -0700 (PDT)

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Re: cryonics and very elderly people

Hi!

You will probably get much the same information from several postings, but 

here goes. I speak about the general situation, not about joining any 
particularsociety.

Cryonic suspension and the storage which follows it costs a fair amount of 
money. No organization has yet been able to provide those sums purely out of 
charity, though in a very few cases they have consented to continue the 
suspension of someone already frozen whose money ran out due to malfeasance on
the part of the organization responsible. Indefinite storage actually costs 
much more than the suspension operation, but suspension makes no sense without
storage.

If your 90 year-old has an estate, the best thing to do would be to convert 
enough of it into a liquid form so that it could be easily used to pay for 
their suspension. If not, he/she will have to rely on donations from others.

The reason that liquidity is needed is simply that, again, no cryonics society
is large enough to risk taking real estate or any other illiquid form of 
wealth as payment.

			Sorry, but long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson


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