X-Message-Number: 6250
From:  (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: bc.politics,sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: British Columbia elections & BC's anti-cryonics law
Date: 20 May 96 04:47:28 GMT
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In <> Bob Mackie <> writes:

>looks like you got frozen out.  what if the funeral directors' lobby
>is bigger than the liquid gas cartel?  who gains if freezing for 
>posterity becomes legal?

	Given that freezing for posterity *is* legal everywhere
in the world *except* British Columbia (froze two people in Manitoba
myself recently), the question can be answered directly.  Turns
out that life insurance companies walk away with the biggest
chunks of loot in cryonics.  Life insurance is the most common
means by which people pay for cryonics, and I estimate that the
total value of cryonics life insurance policies now in force is
about 100 million dollars.

	I will also add parenthetically that funeral directors 
*profit* from cryonics.  They facilitate the legal transfer of "bodies"
from hospitals to waiting cryonics teams, and also usually provide
remote facilities for performing stabilizations of cryonics patients.
My own company, for example, ran up $5000 worth of mortician bills
in just the past 48 hours.   

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 Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
 President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
    http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/
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