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DanielLC comments on Stupid Questions April 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 04 April 2015 05:47:01PM 0 points [-]

I don't believe there are any current trust funds set up in quite this way

Do you know why there aren't? There are trust funds set up so that the interest pays for the cost of being cryopreserved. I would have assumed that they'd have clauses in them where, once the person is thawed, the money goes to whoever thawed them. We don't want people kept frozen just so they can get money from those trust funds.

Comment author: DataPacRat 04 April 2015 10:02:03PM 2 points [-]

interest pays for the cost of being cryopreserved

... Um, are you sure? For the cryo organizations I'm aware of, there /is/ no continuing cost of being cryopreserved for the individual - it's all up-front cost, with the funding going to the organization so /it/ can handle those continuing costs.