X-Message-Number: 19218
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Alcor vs. CI
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:02:17 +0100

> From: "peter tindale" <>
> Subject: Alcor vs. CI
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:26:53 -0700
>
> 1. Has anyone done an unbiased, comprehensive comparison of Alcor and CI?

Many have tried, but I doubt whether there is one that both accept.

>
> 2. How could relations between the two be improved?

I think that Jerry Lemler and Robert Ettinger are doing everything that is
legally possible to improve relations.

> 3. Why don't either offer in house life insurance?

Legislative restrictions limit the profits from life insurance to
organisations that have the money and expertise to jump through some very
big regulatory hoops. Although this directs these large profits from
cryonics organisations, it also directs the risks elsewhere as well. Members
can use a combined plan of term insurance and investment into a trust over a
period of 20 years or so and this will direct some of the profits to the
cryonics organisation (assuming that the member is willing to over-fund and
not take the profits himself, of course.)

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