From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 10:35:53 MDT
Jacques writes:
> You can contract any insurance you like in France.
> .. You are forced to contract some state-managed
> insurances, depending on your profesionnal status.
> But you are free to contract anything you like
> outside of this of course.
Then as is done in the US policies could be written
that make cryonics institutes the beneficiaries and
cryonics in general (as opposed to the Martinot
situation specifically) need not become about publicly
financing the costs for a procedure for all who want
it.
> > The first decision is, Martinot as a special case to
> > "save" Martinot or Martinot as a symbol o[f] a cause
> > that's time has come.
> Regarding the first option, I have transmitted to Rémy
> the doc for Alcor and CI, and personal messages
> / proposals from related people. So I think it is his
> choice.
In what state is Martinot now? Is he in a morgue, frozen
etc?
> Regarding the second option, whether the time has
> come or not business-wise, the fact is, there will be a
> judgement, and a jurisprudence from this judgement
> (= there will be a tendency to re-judge in the same
> way the next cases).
Of course, any entrepreneur considering the risks of
starting a commercial cryonics facility in France now
versus later would have to factor that as a variable.
But it would not imo be a particularly high priority in
relation to other commercial risks. Of interest would
be whether there are also laws prohibiting the export
of the dead and how wide would be the jurisdiction of
the courts decision. It would be a problem perhaps if
it was to apply to the EU generally. But such seems
extremely unlikely.
It is my understanding that there are no for profit
cryonics organisations anywhere and that at this
stage cryonics is sustained by volunteers and true
believers of which so far there are relatively few as
a portion of the population.
- Brett
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