X-Message-Number: 8493 From: (Brent Allsop) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Hostile family members? Date: 25 Aug 1997 16:39:58 GMT Message-ID: <5tscgu$> References: <5tammb$> <5trrc3$are$> Nick Maclaren <> had comments about the RELATIVE'S AFFIDAVIT at <URL: http://www.cryocare.org/signup/relative.txt> > She is dead right. Paragraphs (5), (6) and (12) are enough to make > any sensible person refuse to sign that document. If nothing else, > they could cause her to lose all her inheritance in lawyers' fees > fighting CryoCare for a fair share of any inheritance. Hmmm. Paragraph 5 is only talking about the "Member's human remains". How can any such a paragraph be too strong? How can any relative being given any claim to the remains (or to what happens to them), number one: help the relative with any "inheritance" they might ethically deserve or number two: help a member get what they want done with their "remains"? Paragraph 6 specifically only talks about "properties which The Member has designated". If a member clearly specifics some particular money is to be spent for preservation, why should anyone else, family member or not, legal or not, be allowed to spend money on legal fees to try to have something else done with this money besides what the member wanted? I'm not a lawyer so maybe I'm missing something. If so, I whish you could be more specific about what problems might ensue. As far as paragraph 12 goes I would personally want something along these lines in such a document. If some relative tries to steel funds, legally or not, that I clearly set aside and specified were to be used for my preservation, and such legal attacks used up enough of the funds to make it impossible for the cryonics institution to do the preservation, I would still want whatever remaining funds were left to go to the cryonics institution. I would not want the cryonics institution to be financially damaged by being forced to do something for which there were insufficient funds. If you see problems with paragraph 12, how would you change it so that it would adequately accomplish what I believe it is necessarily trying to do? If there really are problem here could you please be more specific about what they are and how they might be resolved? Why would or how could a cryonics institute fighting to keep what is clearely specified by the member to be it's "property" or "remains" cause a person to "lose all her inheritance in lawyers' fees"? Thank You Brent Allsop Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8493