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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: response to gerald monroe
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:09:47 +0100

I couldn't agree more. The problem with most slightly wealthy people is that 
it costs a significant amount to keep their money for themselves through 
cryopreservation and reanimation -- more money than their apparent wealth 
suggests or can provide. [the occupation of lawyer often produces "slightly 
wealthy" people over a lifetime, so they are trying to use their wealth to 
employ someone similar over significantly more than a lifetime which seems 
impossible even though it isn't full time.] This is why experimental 
organisations set up for the purpose can't even keep up with inflation.

However with seriously wealthy people, ie billionaires, the cost of legal 
and fiduciary services is significantly smaller than their wealth, so it 
would be possible to take money with them through cryopreservation and 
reanimation. These people are usually industrialists - they have created 
wealth for which they have received such rewards from the world as a whole, 
unlikely the slightly wealthy professionals who merely keep the wheels of 
government turning.

It is therefore particularly dissapointing that none of them seem to have 
taken up the cryonics idea. Of course they could have done with an 
organisation like the Institute for Preservation of Lenin - just for one 
person. It would be no different to having a provate jet or yacht.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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Message #32990
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:57:46 -0700
Subject: response to gerald monroe
From: Charles in Arizona <>

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The first step in signing up
wealthy people is to respect their right to keep their money for
themselves.

Charles Platt

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