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Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen

Posted November 17, 2009 8:45 AM

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A science writer discovered it's possible to finance your cryogenic preservation using life insurance — and then leave a huge death benefit to your future thawed self. From the article, 'Most in the middle class, if they seriously want it, can afford it now. So by taking the right steps, you can look forward to waking up one bright future morning from cryopreservation the proud owner of a bank account brimming with money!' There's one important caveat: some insist that money 'will have no meaning in a future dominated by advanced molecular manufacturing or other engines of mega-abundance.'

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11/17/2009 11:46 PM

Only with your trustworthy attorney at your side. (I mean in the holding bin.)

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Re: Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen

11/18/2009 8:21 AM

The big assumption is that anyone will want you back...you can't unfreeze yourself.

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