CryoNet #32598 - #32599

CryoNet - Fri 28 May 2010

    #32598: Re: Will clause [John de Rivaz]
    #32599: Re;Message #32597 [doctor Robert]

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Message #32598
From: "John de Rivaz" <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Will clause
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:29:04 +0100

I was told by a UK lawyer years ago that such a clause would be disregarded 
by the courts because it seeks to deny living people their rights. Dead 
people have little or no rights.

I would also have thought that you wouldn't be leaving such people anything 
anyway, so there would be no inheritance to disinherit. If there was a 
statutory right to an inheritance (eg by a dependant person or divorced 
spouse) whatever you write in your will would be disregarded.

The nearest analogy to the situation is someone going to hospital for a long 
period of treatment. In such circumstances none of this applies.

Until cryonics can have that status in law, cryonics patients are the lowest 
in the law's pecking order. I suspect that cryonics would only get that 
status just before or even just after it becomes obsolete because most needs 
for cryopreservation will no longer apply.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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Message #32596
From: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:46:58 EDT
Subject: Re: Will clause

To prevent evil relatives from seeking to block your cryonic rescue it
would be good to have a clause in your will disinheriting anyone who tries 
such
 a thing.

Is there a standard clause, or can a lawyer among us suggest one?

Alan Mole

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Message #32599
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:41:59 -0700
Subject: Re;Message #32597
From: doctor Robert <[email protected]>

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Hi Alan: I do not have the data for this, however,  Alcor has said, in our
training sessions,  that we get one third of our deceased members as a
result of an expected demise. I do not know the fate of the remaining who
expire unexpectedly. Dr. Robert Newport,

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