X-Message-Number: 24015
From: "David Pizer" <>
Subject: My very best advice
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:32:41 -0700

Here is my opinion of some of the best and worst things a cryonicists can do.


1.  Never leave your cryonics insurance payment (if you don't get frozen)  to 
anyone who has a say in what happens to you when you get sick or die.


2.  In fact, do the opposite.  For instance leave a separate policy of some 
amount (say $100,000) to those who might be involved in making decisions about 
your illness, death and suspension,  ONLY if you get suspended when you die.  If
you don't get suspended, they don't get the bonus money! 


3.  Trust me on this next one, I am not going to give names or specific examples
but I have been around this game for over 20 years and this is the 
truth........   Your loved ones, friends, doctors, family members, are probably 
going to think about you differently the moment you are declared legally dead.
Some of the persons you trusted the most to carry out your cryonics wishes, 
(when you were legally alive),  will be the ones who cause your suspension the 
most trouble or get it stopped, (as soon as you are leggaly dead).  I have seen 
examples of when a person was living and they thought so-and-so would be the 
most useful to guard their suspension wishes but at terminal illness and 
incapacitation or legal death, old so-and-so caused the most trouble.   The 
reasons why this happens:  

a.  People who love you might think that when you are legally dead you have no 
chance, and cryonics won't work, and they think they are helping you by giving 
you a "decent" burial and stopping  your money from going to those "cryonics 
creeps" who misled you all along. 


b.  People who you though respected you when you were alive, really didn't 
respect you - they were just afraid of what you could do to them, and when you 
are legally dead, and they know you can't hurt them or take anything away from 
them or sanction them somehow, and they are no longer afraid of what you can do 
to them,  they will then go for your money and not worry about promises they 
might have made you.


Money us usually more important, to non-cryonicists, than what happens to a 
"dead" body!


When I first got involved I was surprised to see relatives of cryonics patients 
doing things that the patient would not have wanted.  But as I became more 
involved I saw that it happens a lot.


If you really want to read a horror story, get a copy of the current  PHYSICAL 
IMMORTALITY which has an extensive article about The Cryonics Society of 
California.  They used to take cases without getting all the money up front.  
They claim that relatives would come crying and begging and promise to pay for 
the suspension in payments after the suspension.  But soon afterwards the 
relatives quit paying and the company ran out of money and ALL the patients got 
unfrozen!

Conclusion:

Don't put temptation in motion by naming anyone who might have a say in your 
illness or death by naming them as a "substitute" beneficiary if you don't get 
frozen.  


Do put motivation in motion by creating a bonus to those who  might have a say 
in your illness or death ONLY IF you do get frozen.


David Pizer


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