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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:24:14 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20282 - #20288

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Scott Badger writes in part:

> Indeed, [insurance companies] might well decide to pay
> out on life insurance policies only on the condition
> that a body be cremated.

No. They pay off on a death certificate, and the actuarial statistics are not 
affected by what happens after legal death. Insurance companies don't lose 
with cryonics--they win, because they sell additional policies and the 
actuarial statistics are not changed.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org

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