X-Message-Number: 10855
From: "Oro Viejo" <>
Subject:  Trusts - "Time is Money" vs "Unlimited Time"
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:49:18 -0600

Friends,

I read the Trust discussions with (compound) interest (pun intended)!  I,
too, am working towards the same goals.  I want to be able to justify and to
pay for the cost of my reanimation.

BUT ..

Historically, it seems the concept of "money" is derived from the real need
to create a "medium of exchange" for our "time" (in labor)...the only
irreplaceable commodity (to date).

If we as individuals achieve a virtually unlimited amount of time as
entities, especially able to control a bank account, whence comes the value
of money?

As an alternate "Trust", perhaps our memories of the past are the more
valuable commodity  

Do we assault the future with concepts of money and wealth from the
past?  we of Cryonics, least amongst the hoard, ought to have a clearer
vision for our future sustenance, as we are those who most vociferously
"rage against the dying of the light"  .

oro

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