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

[Daniel Wolfson]

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 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

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