X-Message-Number: 14412 From: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 08:53:42 EDT Subject: Financing cryonics suspension This subject is a recurent one. For my part, I am convinced that cryonics expansion rests on a cost problem. This is particularly true here in France. One suggestion has been put forward many time: Buy some real estate property and many year later sell it back to pay for cryonics or give it to your cryonics organization (it seems that works with CI with some overcost). The next step in this line of idea would be to buy a part in a large (or costly) property and give the parts to a cryonics service. This one sell back the parts to a new custommer when the cryonics contract is used. Here, in southern France, the Corsica island special law suppress all taxes on legacy. so the scheme could work without loss of money to the state or anything else. Nationalism has plagued the island for the past 25 years, a problem in good way to be solved. Neverthless, a modern house on the sea border here is valued at 1/4 the price of a similar one on the nearby "cote d'azur". With the solution of the political problem, this price discrepency will not continue. It is expected a x4 rise in the comming five years. The return on investment is near 8 percent per year if you don't use the house for yourself. This is more than the interest rate on a loan to pay for the house. With $ 40 000 you could pay for a CI contract and in five years you could get an Alcor one (if you want). Anyone interested? any comment? Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14412