Uh... do you have any evidence for any of that? None of that seems plausible to me after having read a number of their filings and financial materials.
A handful of very wealthy cryonicists who intend to set up asset preservation schemes, call them reanimation trusts (RT's)
Under the dead-hand doctrine, this would be difficult.
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