X-Message-Number: 7080 From: ( RON SELKOVITCH) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:51:00, -0500 Subject: Saving for the Future Steve Bridge writes: <Liechtenstein-based Prometh is now offering "reincarnation accounts" for the rich who'd rather not start from scratch the next time around. This "seed capital for your next life" (minimum $130,000) is redeemable within 23 years of death > The 23 years limit puzzles me. Does anyone reading this message believe they will be re-animated within 23 years of their de-animation ?. Perhaps this offer is intended for people who have a belief in the more classical meaning of the word 'reincarnation'. <-- providing that the new you knows the name of your first parakeet and other personal facts.> Assumming this offer is directed at cryonicists, how can one expect to keep a password secret. Any technology that is capable of rebuilding a brain is surely capable of extracting any secret information. We can argue that because we have enough confidence in our respective organizations to put our future existence in their hands then it follows that we can trust them not to misuse this confidence by extracting secret information. If this is the case then a better alternative to investing in 'Prometh' is to invest in our cryonics organization with the understanding that we will be reimbursed on re-animation. Having said that, does anyone believe that our capitalist economic system will survive into the future ?. Can we really expect to sleep while our assets acummulate, and return in an advantagious financial position so we can let our assets 'work for us' while others provide for our needs. It just won't happen. Ron S Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7080