> ... Buying a whole life policy to support a cryonics contract when
> you're relatively young and healthy is CHEAP. Yes, medical technology
> and other things may develop fast enough that you don't end up needing
> this investment by say, 2050, when you might be a candidate for
> suspension. But if that's how things turn out, your life insurance
> policy will have turned out to be only a so-so investment...
Depending on the policy. Some flexible universal life policies can be
even better than so-so; some can be downright suck. But you're right in
that it isn't exactly pissing the money away in any case.
> Just finding out how inexpensive it is will be may be the best spur
> to going ahead getting signed up.
Now if we can just do something about the $30/month fees that _are_
just being pissed away, we'll really be set. I'd much rather just
take out a bigger life policy, but they don't have that option.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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