[ExI] Cryonics is getting weird

[Damien Broderick]

On 5/18/2010 12:21 PM, Stefano Vaj wrote:

> The (possible) motive of a more or less remote chance of resuscitation
> need not really enter the frame when the instructions of the deceased
> - as from a legal point of view he*is*  deceased for good - are in
> discussion...

Good point. If, say, you want your body to be cut into small cubes, 
seasoned with herbs, and dispersed around the world, because it's your 
whim or Gaia wants it done that way, I suppose the court should support 
your ambitions, as long as it's sanitary and you've provided sufficient 
funds for it.

Which makes me wonder how this works when for decades you have paid an 
insurance company for the specific purpose of having Alcor freeze your 
head, then that is prevented (your body is lost at sea, or your head 
crushed by a trip hammer, or your dearly beloved relatives have your 
remains buried)--is the company no longer obliged to pay anyone 
anything, or does the loot go to the estate, or to Alcor's coffers, or 
what?

Damien Broderick