X-Message-Number: 9728
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 14:51:48 -0600
From: Borys Wrobel <>
Subject: a crude idea

I have been lurking on Cryonet for several months now, tryining to figure
out for myself what the problem with cryonics might be. I see several, some
of which difficult to solve right now. But one of the most important is the
lack of appeal to a large number of young people like myself. I have a
very, very crude idea how to try to remedy that and I wonder if you could
comment on that. 

I am a 22 year old 'starving' doctoral student, and as far as I know I am
free of any disease. The only reason why I would consider signing up with a
cryonics organization at that point is that, naturaly, you never know...
Of course, the life insurance policy would solve that problem. (In my case
there is an aditional problem of my leaving the US quite soon for Europe,
and then probably some other continent again). I see that the process of
signing up is rather complicated, with the need to set the cryonics
organization as the policy beneficiary, etc,etc. I havent looked into the
matter at all yet, but I can foresee problems with that in my particular
case. 

I think that for people at ages less than forty a different aproach might
work. My ideas here are very crude, and my knowledge of legal and financial
issues more than limited. But at my age I could sing up for the suspension
by depositing a certain amount of money one-time, for the sake of argument,
say $1000. This money could be invested by the cryonics organization, and
for the sake of argument again, lets say  it would bring 10% annually. The
average life expectancy of a person my age is at least 50 years, which
would be about 100k, more than enough for a neurosuspension. If
additionally there was a money-back quarantee, that is, I could un-sing-up
at any point and take my deposit (that is, always just just this $1000)
back, I think that would be appealing to many potential members. Of course,
the amount of money that would have to be deposited would vary depending on
the age of the potential member. 

I am sure that you must have considered such arrangements before, and I
wonder what are the reasons why you decided it wouldnt work.

borys

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