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0 pointsicebraining9y ago0 comments

Maybe we Europeans just have less faith in the goodness of corporations. As it stands, they seem like the perfect opportunity for a scam - they'll freeze you up, then after some years they'll say "unfortunately there's still no cure", and your family can then opt between paying a large annual sum in perpetuity or killing you. While I hope my descendants would have the guts to tell them to burn me up, I can't in good conscience force them to make that choice.

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greendragon9y ago· 2 in thread

Maybe you should work on making your contract law more trustworthy then, if you think corporations can just randomly decide to extort your family years later.

icebrainingOP9y ago

Kinda hard to ensure it keeps being trustworthy after you're dead.

Also, who said it was random? What if they simply run out of money, for any of the hundreds of reasons why companies do? Laws can't magically force them to keep it running if they literally can't afford to.

greendragon9y ago

We don't even need to what-if: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html

All I'm saying is that these scenarios can be sufficiently covered by contracts with the institute you want to preserve you. You can specify that in the unforeseen event of needing more funds to keep you preserved, that you are terminated and buried or cremated in such-and-such fashion without even trying to seek funds from potential relatives or descendants or the government. If contract compliance trust is an issue in Europe, that seems like something to fix first.

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