X-Message-Number: 16328
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:53:23 +0000 ()
From: Louis Epstein <>
Subject: Reply to CryoNet #16240 - Insurance

On 10 May 2001, CryoNet wrote:

> Message #16240 Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:04:10 -0400
> From: Thomas Donaldson <>
> Subject: more on Alcor's "foreign members"
> 
> Suggestion: find a life insurance company which will accept applications
> from overseas DONE WITHOUT THE APPLICANT COMING TO THE UNITED STATES.
> This is far from as incredible as it might seem, since (to discuss
> Australia alone) there are a number of life insurance companies here
> which are basically branches of foreign life insurance companies.

I've considered insurance issues from a rather opposite angle...
not relating to cryonics...many large countries are passing laws
that prohibit insurance companies from varying rates based on
genetic testing.It seems to me that an insurance company that
based itself in a country without such laws could clean up doing
business with people who had favorable genetic criteria and could
only get better rates if they dealt with such a company.
But wouldn't the customers have to visit the "insurance shelter"
country to evade their home countries' bans?

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