X-Message-Number: 4638 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: Re: CryoNet #4631 - #4633 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:22:40 -0700 (PDT) e: 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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4638