In a message dated 2/18/00 4:26:55 PM Central Standard Time,
QueeneMUSE@aol.com writes:
> What about the fear of throwing your monthly (or yearly) money away on
> something that likely will never happen? Of being gullible? Or.. of the
> dedicated companies that offer these marginal services not making it, and
> folding long before any sort of technology like this becomes available and
> thawing out, like the guy's dad did in 'Host'.
>
> These, not some wish for death and oblivion (let's face it, to qualiify
for
> cryonics you still have to die) are my motives for abstaining.
Before I signed up with Alcor I did some fairly thorough due dilligence and
thought pretty hard about the relative value of the money I would spend on
involvement with Alcor versus other uses of the money. I concluded that 1)
the people involved with Alcor had put a lot of thought into making a small,
non-profit organization as sustainable as possible, even if the idea never
"catches on" and 2) that the relative value of the investment in a cryonics
contract was, for me, a good investment.
Both of these are pretty subjective judgments, although I feel pretty
confident about the first (especially after the "patient care funds" were put
into a separate trust).
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
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