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From: John de Rivaz <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: wanted in future?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 11:16:07 +0100
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References: <4sjij7$> <4sreqp$>

In article: <4sreqp$>   (Dr. Jim 
Stevenson) writes:
> YOu can put as much extra money as you want in a sepret trust, managed
> either by your chosen cryonics organization, or by your children. 
> 
> The cryonics company has many reasons, legal and social, to do its best to
> revive all its patients. I can only speak for myself, but I would 
> adamatly prefer a good chance of having my loved parents as friends, 
> in the future, when their deterioration of aging is reversed, than the
> largest imaginable enharitence.

An excellent idea. However I suspect that it is in the best interests of 
the cryonics organisations to have people "overfund" in order to provide 
extra capital for emergencies or if the costs of reanimation are not as 
small as the nanotechnology adherents suggest, or if costs rise before 
the suspension takes place.

I do agree, though, if you can buy in friends and relations they will 
get the cryonics meme more easily than if you have to persuade them to 
make financial commitment. They may even turn out to be the people who 
ensure your own suspension (unless you happen to live on the doorstep of 
a cryonics organisation.) If you are able to use a trust and invest in 
technology stocks, you should increase the value sufficiently to take in 
partners if you use the Cryonics Institute. [The suspension costs at 
other organisations inflate, which means they grow alongside your trust 
unless you are spectacularly successful. They outgrow life insurance, 
of course.]


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