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From: John de Rivaz <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: The Importance of Brain Cryopreservation
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 09:15:53 +0100
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In article: <>   (Brian Wowk) 
writes:
> > Creating an investment based income stream and using the income to 
> > fund reasearch through a highly annonymous (even paranoid) system of 
> > trusts and companies is a possible answer.
> 
> 	Yes, but John, you'd have to pay *lawyers* to set that
> up for you.  Do you really want immortality *that* badly? :)

Off the shelf products are appearing, but as yet they are still 
expensive. You still need at least a million dollars *to invest* (not 
total assets) to make the costs worthwhile. It should be possible to set 
aside $10s of thousands to grow enough within a lifetime to produce such 
a figure that can then be treated in this way.

Organisations like Terra Libra, Global Heritage Bank etc are appearing 
that claim to offer such services at reasonable cost. They are often 
staffed by people who would like to have been lawyers but couldn't fit 
in with the system. At present reliability has not been tested by time, 
but if they make it they could be the institutions of the future that 
will displace many money making schemes run by existing professional 
cartels. There are a lot of immortalists involved with these programs 
right now.

It may be possible to use an offshare life insurance linked investment 
to accumulate and distribute, but the costs are not encouraging.

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