[extropy-chat] WSJ: A Cold Calculus Leads Cryonauts To Put Assets on Ice

[Joseph Bloch]

I've seriously considered doing something similar for myself (inspired 
by James L. Halpren's book "The First Immortal").

Granted that the universe of those signed up for cryonics is incredibly 
small, and a stark minority even among Transhumanists, I cannot help but 
wonder if there isn't some sort of business opportunity for a company to 
sell such financial management services as a trust, with all the funds 
being pooled and then doled out proportionally. My knowledge of such 
matters (both financial and legal) is small, but I would think it would 
be doable, if only there were a large enough pool of interested parties 
and funds to make it work.

 From this article, it seems that there might be...

Joseph

Amara Graps wrote:

> The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about a trust fund,
> collected by oneself, after one is reanimated from cryonics suspension.
>
> http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113780314900652582-3NZCCoZBW7UHDmouEOrkzkalkfY_20060129.html?mod=blogs 
>
>
> A Cold Calculus Leads Cryonauts To Put Assets on Ice
> With Bodies Frozen, They Hope to Return Richer;
> Dr. Thorp Is Buying Long
> By ANTONIO REGALADO
> Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
> January 21, 2006; Page A1
>
> You can't take it with you. So Arizona resort operator David Pizer has
> a plan to come back and get it.
>
> Like some 1,000 other members of the "cryonics" movement, Mr. Pizer
> has made arrangements to have his body frozen in liquid nitrogen as
> soon as possible after he dies. In this way, Mr. Pizer, a heavy-set,
> philosophical man who is 64 years old, hopes to be revived sometime in
> the future when medicine has advanced far beyond where it stands
> today.
>
> And because Mr. Pizer doesn't wish to return a pauper, he's taken an
> additional step: He's left his money to himself.
>
> (see the article for the rest)
>
> Amara
>