X-Message-Number: 9206 From: Olaf Henny <> Subject: Re: Message #9199 From L. Hardy Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:32:13 -0800 Re: Message #9199 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:39:06 -1000 From: L Hardy <> >Then tell me about the many hundreds of thousands of (over 400,000 in the USA alone) >churches that don't pay taxes at all and have assets tied up perpetually. Does the >government laws affect these? Only if they are corporations... > A church like a corporation is a 'person' before the law. As long as this church exists, this 'person' is alive and entitled to keep its assets and to the tax privileges churches enjoy. The owners of the church, the clergy and the congregation change, but the church remains intact. I do not see where this impacts on maintaining our assets during cryopreservation. Once we are preserved we are by present definition legally dead. >> How could an individual leaving money to himself when he gets unfrozen write >> it so that higher laws apply. >he doesn't write it after, but writes an instrument or contract before. We are not >talking about mans law here, mans laws don't apply... when you invoke Gods law. Since the church is a continuous entity, there is not a problem with succession. I don't see where any "God's Law', if such a thing indeed exists, comes in. >> A trust (as you know) is sometimes attacked by relatives or the government. >> It has to pass standards. Most trusts are not public so the money can get >> passed on the someone else before others (who might challange it) even know >> what has happened. I understand, that some of the tax havens (like Antigua, Bahamas, Belize Bermuda, Costa Rica or Liechtenstein) will allow trust in perpetuity, which will not dissolve or be accessible to heirs upon legal death of the owner. The problem as I see it is one of identification. Any hard record of ID is subject to fraud over such a long period and retention of any code in memory is certainly less than guaranteed. Olaf Henny Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9206