X-Message-Number: 9206
From: Olaf Henny <>
Subject: Re: Message #9199 From L. Hardy
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:32:13 -0800

Re: Message #9199
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:39:06 -1000
From: L Hardy <>

>Then tell me about the many hundreds of thousands of (over 400,000 in the
USA alone)
>churches that don't pay taxes at all and have assets tied up perpetually.
Does the
>government laws affect these?  Only if they are corporations...
>
A church like a corporation is a 'person' before the law.  As 
long as this church exists, this 'person' is alive and entitled 
to keep its assets and to the tax privileges churches enjoy. The 
owners of the church, the clergy and the congregation change, but 
the church remains intact.  I do not see where this impacts on 
maintaining our assets during cryopreservation.  Once we are 
preserved we are by present definition legally dead.

>> How could an individual leaving money to himself when he gets unfrozen write
>> it so that higher laws apply.

>he doesn't write it after, but writes an instrument or contract before.  We
are not

>talking about mans law here, mans laws don't apply... when you invoke Gods law.

Since the church is a continuous entity, there is not a problem 
with succession.   I don't see where any "God's Law', if such a 
thing indeed exists, comes in.

>> A trust (as you know) is sometimes attacked by relatives or the government.
>> It has to pass standards.  Most trusts are not public so the money can get
>> passed on the someone else before others (who might challange it) even know
>> what has happened.

I understand, that some of the tax havens (like Antigua, Bahamas, 
Belize Bermuda, Costa Rica or Liechtenstein) will allow trust in 
perpetuity, which will not dissolve or be accessible to heirs 
upon legal death of the owner.  The problem as I see it is one of 
identification. Any hard record of  ID is subject to fraud over 
such a long period and retention of any code in memory is 
certainly less than guaranteed.

Olaf Henny

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