X-Message-Number: 12901 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:19:58 -0500 From: gary tripp <> Subject: self-funding insurance What are the prospects for setting up a non-profit insurance scheme for cryonicists. We could employ something akin to universl life where premiums would go into an investment fund. A portion of the investment returns would be used to pay the "cost" of insurance. We could mandate that most of the money be used in concervative investments but with a small portion for investment in life-extension related ventures where there is an exptected commercial return. At some point the returns would be sufficient to reduce future premiums provided that the initial premiums were high enough. With appropriate safeguards (regular audits) the only issue would be insurance viability. Has anyone done the math? /gary Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12901