X-Message-Number: 11435
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 14:50:21 +0100
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: Insurance? Paying Cryonics

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writes:
> 
> Another problem is the risks of a legal dispute if we die with some greedy
> ones who can inherit us, I have one for the moment but anyone may turn
> greedy in that moment as I learned when my father died. Therefore I dont
> trust private assets no matter what, and dont trust trustfunds even if
> they are a lot better, because the greedy ones may try to crack them. A
> trustfund made even with a topnotch lawyer may be invalid in time with new
> laws etc. we havent observed.

Life policies have a trust attached, usually mass produced by the life 
company. Surely this is just as likely to be attacked by an opportunistic 
legalist adventurer as any other trust. An adventurer only need to threaten 
to sue the life company to have the funds held up in truly Dikensian 
legislation for decades. 

The only way to stop such adventurers is to make them too afraid to act, and 
all methods I know of are illegal and are therefore totally incompatible 
with cryonics for reasons I have discussed many times before. Maybe 
eventually someone who knows the law will be able to develop legal 
approaches that would scare off such opportunistic adventurers. (eg some 
construction that would make them bankrupt and unable to own assetts or 
handle money for the rest of their lives if they lost the case.) 

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