X-Message-Number: 20303 From: Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:38:06 EDT Subject: Re: policies for folks in the "pokie" --part1_17f.1023c654.2adb961e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/13/02 5:00:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, writes: > E.g. a convicted murderer is sentenced to death and is signed up for > cryonics. The procedure was paid in with cash (insurance will not take care > of that in case of a conviction, right RudyH?) Hello, Iggy and fellow cryoneters... Rudi Hoffman here. Yes, Iggy, you are right about some problems with life insurance for convicts. As it stands right now, it is impossible to get life insurance coverage for anyone who is 1. in prison or jail currently 2. has been convicted and is likely to go to jail... or even 3. someone on probation. Interestingly, I have had no less than three cryonics clients in which the above has been an issue and a "deal stopper." 2 situations were incarcerated, and one on probation. With one ouyt of every 32 people in jail or on probation in the USA, according to the last "Reason" magazine article I read yesterday, incarceration/probation is actually an issue, and yet another underwriting hoop to jump through. With draconian drug laws the way they are, it is not just "violent offenders" that are incarcerated. The same article used a figure of 6.6 million folks either incarcerated or on probation in the US. This is a bunch of people. I suspect all of them are not really "bad dudes." Although some of them certainly are. But thousands of them are nonviolent offenders who may have been caught with a few joints or some personal use cocaine. I guess you can figure out my position on the so called "war on drugs" as more of a "war on personal freedoms." But this is my opionion, I could be wrong, and I am not trying to start a "drug war" thread on cryonet. Folks, please stay out of jail and healthy, especially until we can get your life insurance in place!:) Warm Regards and Respect for all, Rudi --part1_17f.1023c654.2adb961e_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20303