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

[Samantha Atkins]

I can set up a trust or foundation or other instrument that survives  
my "death" now and follows my wishes in perpetuity including  
retaining the best investment advice available to keep the financial  
entity alive and thriving and on track.   I  don't see why there is a  
large problem here.   As long as this financial entity has some  
agreed way to recognize the resuscitated beneficiary and is obligated  
in its charter to do so I think such would be workable.

- samantha

On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Daniel Wolfson wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>      Does anyone know if there are any legal problems that could  
> occur and how to avoid them? I mean the law doesn't recognize that  
> death is a reversible process, and I think some heirs would want  
> all the inheritance. Would the trust hold up in a court where a  
> corpsicle hasno civil liberties because, in a legal sense, it is  
> only a dead body? This is my first post.
>
> Dan Wolfson
>
> Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> 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 Retu! rn 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
>
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