X-Message-Number: 5992 From: (Brian Wowk) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Oregon doctor-assisted suicide Date: 24 Mar 96 04:37:05 GMT Message-ID: <> References: <> <4iqfnk$> In <4iqfnk$> (RHA) writes: > What is to stop insurance companies from adding anti-cryonic > stipulations on to their policies. The fact that the ink to print such stipulations would cost more than the money they would save by the stipulations. There has not been exactly been a stampede of healthy people wanting to get frozen on a lark, and with good reason. The odds of today's cryonics technology working are arguably quite low. They get even lower (much lower) when you consider that any healthy person committing suicide will be subjected to manditory autopsy, delaying freezing by as long as several days post-mortem. While several suicide cases are now frozen, none of them involved the deliberate purchase of life insurance for that purpose two years in advance. Suicide psychology doesn't work that way. Physically-healthy people who commit suicide usually don't give a damn whether they are frozen or not. The decision to kill themselves has nothing to do with cryonics at all. > Look at it from their > position, buy a $100,000 policy (or more) and two years > later jump into cryonics. I doubt the courts would allow > that kind of sting. Bet the courts would consider that > as entering a contract with the intent to commit fraud. You don't need to look to cryonics to find that kind of possible fraud. Much more likely is the case of a poor man who wants to give his family a better life by buying life insuance and killing himself two years later. There has not exactly been a stampede of these kinds of cases either, or anti-suicide clauses would be much more common in life insurance. Can you cite any examples of where an insurance company successfully avoided paying a claim because of suicide occuring after the two-year contenstibility period? *************************************************************************** Brian Wowk CryoCare Foundation 1-800-TOP-CARE President Your Gateway to the Future http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5992