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Comment author: CronoDAS 09 January 2012 02:09:05AM 7 points [-]

If this miracle of people dying and corresponding sums of money magically appearing in charity funds was commonplace, what debate would follow a hypothetical technology that terminates the miracle?

It's possible to buy life insurance and specify a charity as the beneficiary.