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From: John de Rivaz <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: "investing in cryonics"
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:33:58 +0100
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In article: <4l89rf$>  Randy Smith 
<> writes:
> One of the first people I told about cryonics was a lady who has a 
> son and husband who are lawyers. Her first comment was, "The lawyers will 
> steal all the money."

Maybe the answer would be to hold the capital in non-litigious 
jurisdictions in a number of secret accounts that even the directors don't 
know much about, they only receive the income, in return for performance. 
If lawyers screw up the operation, the account managers then set up another 
cryonics organisation and transfer the patients, leaving the lawyers with 
very little. Of course this has its own risks, but if there are many such 
accounts the chances of all failing are less. Using the "invest in 
technology" idea, such could be seeded now and only start paying out an 
income after they have grown from a few thousand dollars to millions say in 
50 or so decades time. The idea is analagous to the UK government, fearing 
a National Socialist invasion from Germany in the 1940s, built secret 
underground hide-outs from which a resistance could operate.

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