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From: "David Pizer" <>
Subject: More on "Taking it with you."
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:05:15 -0700

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Most Bang for the Small Buck.


There has recently been some discussion on this forum on how to get the most 
return for your money while you are in cryonics suspension.


If you have large resources, the costs of setting up a trust and 
finding/employing a reliable trustee (while you are in suspension) are 
(proportionally) not that expensive.  It has been, however, mentioned that these
start up costs and the costs of running the trust will eat up all the money in 
smaller trusts.  So how does the person with a small pile of assets get the most
return?


In my opinion, if someone falls into this category they should consider the 
option of just leaving the money to the cryonics company that suspends them.  
There should not be an expectation of financial return in these cases, but there
would be the expectation that if all of us leave some extra money (when we can)
to our suspension organizations that will enable them to do a better job and 
increase the odds that we will be reanimated some day.  This might far and away 
be the most bang anyone can get for their buck?


I know in Alcor's case (and I'm pretty sure this holds for CI) a lot of good and
additional benefits were obtained for all the patients because of the 
additional bequests left by certain far-thinking members who also helped 
themselves in the process.

David Pizer

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