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Perpetual trusts destroy cryonics financially. On a macroscale, bad perfusion has made current cryonics impossible to trust and on a microscale, the avoidance of a cryoconnectome proof destroys cryonics technically. Those elements, on top of Alcor's reneg on grandfathering, churning, labelling members underfunded, rising dues and Falloons call for still more insurance for reanimation, considered a separate function now from preservation make cryonics now seem impossible even to long time advocates like me. To bypass these cryonics show-stoppers, we should seriously reconsider the case for chemical preservation as suggested by Ken Hayworth who is at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Perpetual trusts were outlawed for centuries because they were considered dead hands that hampered living society. Now, wealth preservation conferences in cryonics promote something even worse... self-aimed perpetual trusts for the wealthy cryonicist which will result in dead frozen hands that currently hamper and will suffocate reality based cryonics.
-------WEALTH PRESERVATION TRUSTS SIGNAL THE END OF CRYONICS -- ONLY A CRYONICS INSURANCE FUND WILL SIGNAL ITS RESUMPTION.]-----------The Failure of Cryonics Finance-------Alcor set up for the rich?-----Problem is bigger than Alcor--------Comprehensive Cryonics Insurance & Credit Corporation-------------Google blogsearch on "cryonics"----------I quit.------------My Conversion to CI-----Bostrom-Sandberg-Vincent on Perp Trusts PDF must read-----A Negative Seung Test would end cryonics.-------[Cryoconnectome proof tracking]------Cryoconnectomics needs to be proven as the industry's next step]
Cryonics is currently on self-destruct like the Enterprise in an episode of Star Trek.. a magnificent concept is going down.. as a result of self directed perp trusts being made worse with robo trusts and Faloon's call for yet more life insurance to be bought by wealthless ordinary cryonicists for reanimation... instead of calling for redirecting bequests of wealthy cryos to a Cryonics Insurance Fund. I'm horrified by this turn of events since about 2006 in cryonics... as horrified and saddened as the original crew of the Enterprise watching their ship streak through the sky, burning up as she goes down. Despite the financial crash of cryonics, there is still a hard core group of perp trusters but if the Seung Test proves negative, even they will find cryonics impossible to carry forward. The Seung Test is the new gold touchstone test or acid test for cryonics-- and it hasn't been done yet. Do the wealthy cryonicists fear what they may find-- connectome destruction in cryovitrified brain slice? [Destruction of Star Trek Enterprise 1 min video]

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Saul Kent Cryofied as a Whole Meat Body/Brain but Quantum Saul Lives.

This is my first post to this cryonics blog as a Quantumonicist. One of the advantages of being that is premonition powers. I had a premonition or signal from Saul Kent about two weeks before he deanimated. I can prove it via footnote 3 below, a post I made in reddit/cryonics. It might have been my first post to reddit/cryonics. I decided to ask about Saul Kent "out of the blue". A few weeks later, he was cryofied.
More updates here later.

Footnotes

1. Wowk's memorial https://biostasis.substack.com/p/saul-kent-and-the-science-of-cryopreservation

2. Reddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/cryonics/comments/13t87li/saul_kent_1940_25may2023/

3. My Reddit post "How is Saul Kent doing?". https://www.reddit.com/r/cryonics/comments/12wtnhi/how_is_saul_kent_doing/

THE PERSONAL HUMAN MIND SURVIVES PHYSICAL DEATH!! Cryonics no longer necessary for physical immortality.

<b>THE PERSONAL HUMAN MIND SURVIVES PHYSICAL DEATH!
Cryonics no longer necessary for physical immortality. </b>
Anti-aging/Life Extension still a worthy pursuit but not looking good in light of economic shutdowns.<br>
A brief update by Rick65 Potvin<br><br>

I have not been posting my anti-aging, cryonics and physical immortality ideas to this blog for a long time because the computer and broswer and internet connection I'm using don't post fast enough here. Some of my latest work in those areas are at Immortality Cafe [<a href="https://mb.boardhost.com/rickpotvin64/index.html?posted_1640268610">here</a>]

and other survival related material is [<a href="https://rickpotvin63.boardhost.com/viewforum.php?id=16">here</a>]

I decided to visit this "slow" blog again to post those links and to let any of my itinerant readers know that I've now converted into or graduated into embracing a deep quantum reality version of personal human immortality best expressed by Doug Matzke in Deep Reality. (published 2020). I'm currently struggling to summarize Matzke's book, and compare it with Mike Perry's tome "Forever For All" at the same time. I may not be back here on this blog for awhile due its slowness but I'm frequently at the above links. Here is a quick statement pertinent to my current mindset...

Posted by Rick65 on July 15, 2022, 8:28 pm

THE PERSONAL HUMAN MIND SURVIVES PHYSICAL DEATH!

p. 190 Matzke quote slightly rewritten by Rick... Quantum states existed before, and are the cause of our classical universe... Similarly, our quantum mind precedes our physical bodies and the universe. It follows that our mind is hyperdimensional and survives the physical death of the body.

Covid Vaccines require -90F storage??? -- Do they contain a new cryopreserved LIFE FORM-- to be injected into us???

For the first time ina LOOONG time, I've emailed CI and Alcor with this quick message... that occurred to me as I watched Fox news on the requirement for cold storage of covid vaccines-- that the media and govn't are hyperventilating about right now...

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What do you make of covid vaccines requiring -90F storage? My novel idea which I have not seen published yet-- you're welcome to do it first-- is that the vaccine contains a NEW LIFEFORM!!! --that will occupy human systems. Who better knows about cryopreserved lifeforms than CI and Alcor, right? Cryonics can be out front to WARN MANKIND!!! What do you think?

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I'll report their answers back here. Neither of their websites currently say anything about cryogenically frozen vaccines.

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UPDATE Dec. 15: I emailed CI again-- but this time re: my post to Jon Rappaport's blog about CI's News item that implies CI believes Covid to be real and vaccines to be useful. Rick Potvin in Phoenix AZ says: Your comment is awaiting moderation. December 16, 2020 at 6:21 pm SOTN– State of the Nation– republished Jon’s article…The COVID vaccine and the commercial conquest of the planet: The Plan Posted on December 16, 2020 by State of the Nation http://stateofthenation.co/?p=42007 StateOftheNation.co is a go-to source for me and they have a lot of useful republished articles easily scanned in the right index bar. They’ve republished Jon’s articles in the past. One of the cryonics companies I’ve been a member of in the past, Cryonics Institute, in Michigan, featured an article about Covid recently that displays their willingness to go along with the hoax. “New Covid Vaccine tested on Monkeys shows promise” https://www.cryonics.org/news/ Reply MY POST TO NoMoreFakeNews https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/12/16/when-the-elderly-and-frail-die-after-receiving-the-covid-vaccine/#comment-166369

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NO CI OR ALCOR RESPONSE TO MY QUEERIES. My querys go unanswered. Very queer, considering cold temps are their specialty. I emailed Charles Platt with a queery too but he referred me to his electronics books. -rick p. jan 23, 2021.

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NIGERIA IS HOT ON COLD TEMPS https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/437474-covid-19-nigeria-acquires-ultra-cold-freezers-to-store-pfizer-vaccine.html COVID VAX INSANITY spurs NEW INTEREST IN COLD TEMP PRESERVATION https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Awr9BNdMywxgDi4AW3VXNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3NmcARmcjIDc2ItdG9wBGdwcmlkAzlyYnhrQXhTUUVpODFSeUJsVnhzZkEEbl9yc2x0AzAEbl9zdWdnAzQEb3JpZ2luA3NlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMwBHFzdHJsAzQ1BHF1ZXJ5A3BmaXplciUyMHZhY2NpbmUlMjBjb2xkJTIwc3RvcmFnZSUyMCUyMmxpcXVpZCUyMG5pdHJvZ2VuJTIyBHRfc3RtcAMxNjExNDUxMjMy?p=pfizer+vaccine+cold+storage+%22liquid+nitrogen%22&fr2=sb-top&fr=sfp

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Max More Quit as Alcor Prez... a few months before political hell to break loose. Is he heading for the hills north of Scottsdale? Camp Verde?

RECENT SCAN of ALCOR SITE SHOWS MAX MORE QUITTING as PRESIDENT I don't look at cryonics too often these days with my hands full of my own... situations. Occasionally I like to review my files though and I discovered Max is leaving as President of Alcor. After a few days, it occurred to me that a lot of cyro people are survivalists and that with the covid psyop and election chaos, that we could see some crazy things hit cities soon. One of the original reasons Pizer built Ventureville in Mayer, north of Phoenix, was to have a survival area in case things crash in the cities but he has since sold off that property like he does all properties, being nothing but a property flipper-- to the end I guess. Across the I/17 freeway and a bit north, however, is a nice little town called Camp Verde. I suspect long time survivalist Doug Platt is there in survivalist mode and I'm only speculating-- but could Max be joining Doug in Camp Verda for the chaos to come? JUST a "theory" at this point. I'm stuck in Phoenix so if the SHTF, I'm cooked. However, I'm not currently signed up having lost my faith in Alcor and cryonics in around 2013 in favor of following Seung-Hayworth-Connectomes-ASC. My motivation to fund my previous membership for head only with no vitrifiction sort of went downhill, especially since dues went up, and I found out more about membership churning and I could not get reassurance on antifreeze protocol at my chosen level of funding. On top of that, my actual real-life income was falling short of my income and something had to give. Alcor Position Statement on Brain Preservation Foundation ... www.alcor.org/blog/alcor-position-statement-on... The technology and solutions that Alcor uses for vitrification (a technology from mainstream organ banking research) were actually developed by the same company that developed ASC and has now won the Brain Preservation Prize. ASC under the name “fixation and vitrification” was first proposed for cryonics use in 1986. ASC enables excellent .. Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S... Dec 01, 2015 · To demonstrate the suitability of ASC brains for connectome tracing studies, Ken Hayworth at the Janelia Research Campus in Virginia kindly agreed to carry out FIB-SEM imaging of a 10 μm × 10 μm × 5 μm region of rabbit hippocampus that had been preserved using ASC. Fig. 8 shows several slices from that volume. Overall structural preservation is excellent: processes are clearly defined and organelles are intact, as expected.

Jeffery Epstein a Head Only --?-- ha ha ha!!!

Coming up!

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UPDATE Jan. 27, 2020 by Rick.

It appears that I'm about to include TMZ in my circle of contacts for this blog. I  saw their TIPS link after checking out their Kobe Bryant narrative and figured I'd give the Jeffery Epstein cryonics story extra legs.  In the process, I'll be working with this blogger.com media again.... trying to get good at it.

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UPDATE Jan. 30, 2020 by Rick.

No time to research this or much of anything else since D has some medical problems I have to tend to... along with my GC lessons. It turns out that as I look into Epstein's cryonics plan, I'm reviewing a few other elements of cryonics... the last being my review of the current Trans Time Inc site which has become completely banalized. I looked up the old site on WayBack and was gratified to get my memory-circuit stimmed by that "old-look" website.... which was actually far more honest. It seems to me Kent has competely taken over cryonics and their publications with a complete phony and banal front. Ugh.

RE: STRUCTURE and FUNCTION of this blog: I'm playing with other forums but as far as this one goes, I might experiment with a log here and summarize any comments which can still be posted below. It's a new way to operate here.

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UPDATE Feb. 5, 2020 by Rick.

Still haven't had time and where-with-all to look into Epstein cryonics but looked at TransTime site earlier, and CI site this morning. Striking thing about CI is pic of Tom Cruise still staring out at you on the front page.... and new "news"!? Again the Kent-banalization of all websites is complete along with the underground-ization of cryonics as well. A search on "cryonics discussion forums" for example brings up a few reddit posts an then my RecreationCryonics tapatalk site with converted Network54 forums. I'm still the star of the cryonics discussion world, apparently. So here we are in the future-- what a funny twist. Another twisted aspect of this future is that this is the first time I've made cryonics posts on a big-blog like blogger.com and have seen zero comments after a month. Wow. Must be that smart-phone-mania has obsolesced all other old-fashioned-online-media. I don't do smartphones... which I think of as microwave-transceivers that can damage my tissue.

An important aspect of cryonics, in my view now, is that any legitimate offering should include prominant disclaimers and alternatives.  Reincarnation, cosmetic cryonics, anti-aging and anti-constipation would all be seen on a legit cryo site.... as well as the price of LN2.

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UPDATE  Tues. Aug. 4, 2020 by Rick... Just dropping in to say hello to my own blog-- where I still see no comments. Kind of funny since my flat earth blog has lots of comments. We're four months into this covid hoax... and part of the underlying narrative involves Trump's takedown of deepstate DUMBS and c. traffikkng stuff... leading to pineal gland excretions-- from horrified c's... leading to youthing as exemplified by celebs.... I'm too busy to follow these story leads at this time however. Working on my washer-- repair-- and D. maintenance due to problems... as well as shutdown of piano lessons and gigs. Crazy crazy crazy. But... thank God for beer and Happy Hour.

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Cher wants cryonics?

May 30, 2019
In a random search on google news, I see that Cher wants cryonics. More on this soon.

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              CHER ON TABLOIDS THIS WEEK by Rick on Feb. 5, 2020.
              I saw Cher looking good on the front page of a tabloid at Fry's the other day. Quickly scanning, I noted that she has a new publication that promises to tell readers what they've never known about her. Now, this morning, it occurs to me that that might include cryonics-interests. I'll look into this in the near future as I can. Visitors to this forum may post in comments below as contributors. 
 

Don Laughlin's estate was apparently worth a billion dollars... Where did it go? Alcor cryonics? or South Dakota Perp Trust black hole?

Left: Don Laughlin's staute    Right: Recent photo of a black hole

Don Laughlin's estate was apparently worth a billion dollars... Where did it go? Alcor cryonics? or South Dakota Perp Trust black hole? by rick_potvin@yahoo.com

Well.. he finally did it. Don Laughlin, the wealthiest man in cryonics, shifted dimensions without my having known it--- last November 2018. I only discovered the factoid today because I occasionally surf the search engines with names-I've-known-from-the-past.
Now I might be able to associate Dave Pizer's email to me asking where Doug Platt is with the point in time that Laughlin transitioned to the frozen state.  I think it might have been around that time that he queried me on that. I told Dave I hadn't talked to Doug in years and had no idea where he was other than seeing an occasional updated photo of him on searches here and there on the image search column of Yahoo.

I myself am still in a non-cryonics-prepared modality since around 2010 or so. I feel like a man walking a high-wire across the old Trade Towers in New York in 1965: One false move and my physical existence which COULD have been permanent and forever will be wiped out forever. If it were not for my new interests in ASCENDANCE via chakras/energy states and REINCARNATION, I'd be worried for myself right now like I used to be when I was younger. I'm actually more worried about my libido and about ten gray hairs than anything as grandiose as my ultimate physical existence lately, however. I haven't had time to consider the irrationality of my current beliefs... if they're that. Covering my bills and running around doing this and that sucks up all the oxygen of my life.

Enough about me, let's consider Don. Here's Don in a red shirt 10 years ago. Nice teeth. You'd think a billionnaire would dye his hair however. I dye mine if I see gray--- when I can. There's a little pencil-brush doodad I use to hide those grays. Somehow, men's faces become more ghost-like when gray and white hair sets in. Dave Pizer still sports coloured hair, I've noticed. Good for him. For the cost of a little toxicity in the dye, you can at least look younger than you are as a protest against this short lifespan we've been saddled with.

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Secrecy is currency for the wealthy...  
but I believe John F. Kennedy was right when he said something like-- 
Americans don't like secrecy.... so let's expose Don Laughlin's (and Dave Pizer's) secret plans. 

Originally, I thought of cryonics as an every-man's way (oops-- every PERson's way) ... of taking a shot at blowing off that stupid human condition of limited lifespan. I bought life-insurance I could not afford while at McMaster University from a dopey kid named Mark Lang in Ancaster and assigned the proceeds to C.I. (Cryonics Institute). I figured I'd worry about the details later. I was inspired by Ettinger's Prospect of Immortality which I picked up for $2 at a used book library sale in that town, Ancaster. 

Long story short-- it turns out that cryonics is run by wealthy dudes like Saul Kent (where in the heck is he, lately, anyway?)... who sock their dough away in perp trusts. (I've seen Bill Faloon doing his Immortality
Church on Youtube--- interesting! though Bill looks a bit bug eyed... good hair however! ) There used to be a RULE against perps but that's falling apart like everything else lately. So it turns out-- that Don Laughlin, who had a private cryonics lab on the top floor of his hotel -- got frozen in secret AND stashed his dough in S. Dakota in a perp trust never to be used again (if cryonics doesn't work). 

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South Dakota is the only asset protection state that has a total seal on trust information forever. Clearly, this is also an important factor to consider when determining where to place an asset protection trust. 

I don't know where I originally discovered that Laughlin was hiding his money in S. Dakota. It'll be a long time before I get the time to look at that. The fact of the matter, however, is that PERP TRUSTS exist... that wealthy cryonicists like it... and that S. Dakota is one state where it's legal. My DEDUCTION (or is it induction logic) LOGIC says that Don L. stashed his cash in a Perp friendly state of the U.S. union. 

So what?, one might ask. 

Well... the so in the what is that PERP TRUSTS are ONLY legal in certain states but ILL eagle in other states... think on that for 3 seconds and you might be hit with the idea "why?". Why are they illegalized in some states? 

Well... because they suck money out of the economy like newly expunged bathtub drain. The sucking sound Ross Perot talked about is amplified 1000x. Can you hear it? I'd post an mp3 but maybe later. You can probably attempt your own sound effect with your own mouth. I did. It adds to my writing skill. Skill. Yes, that's exactly what I'm exhibiting here. Writing... skill. Okay. Let's move on. 

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UPDATE #1 on Monday, April 15, 2019 by Rick Potvin @ 61

 I managed to locate a few posts I made several years ago about cryonics financing and where the technology is. I'll repost the salient part of it here... 

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Recently, I determined that perpetual trusts are a financial showstopper for cryonics, but now the connectome crisis is the showstopper for all of cryonics-- the nail in the coffin of cryonics-- that creates a new prospect of mortality for us all and all existing cryonics patients/cryonauts.

KEN HAYWORTH INTERVIEW with NIKOLA DANALYOV is required viewing for EVERYONE in cryonics today if you haven't already seen it... it's 1 hr. and gives us a NEW way to think about chem pres... as br has argued but there are severe problems with that too. More immediately important, he explains that 21st CM is having trouble proving connectome survival and if connectomes can't be proven to survive, then cryonics is over for him-- and for the cryonics industry. Recently, I detemined that perpetual trusts are a financial showstopper for cryonics, but now the connectome crisis is the showstopper for all of cryonics-- the nail in the coffin of cryonics-- that creates a new prospect of mortality for us all and all existing cryonics patients/cryonauts.

Perpetual trusts destroy cryonics financially. On a macroscale, bad perfusion has made current cryonics impossible to trust and on a microscale, the avoidance of a cryoconnectome proof destroys cryonics technically. Those elements, on top of Alcor's reneg on grandfathering, churning, labelling members underfunded, rising dues and Falloons call for still more insurance for reanimation, considered a separate function now from preservation make cryonics now seem impossible even to long time advocates like me. To bypass these cryonics show-stoppers, we should seriously reconsider the case for chemical preservation as suggested by Ken Hayworth who is at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Perpetual trusts were outlawed for centuries because they were considered dead hands that hampered living society. Now, wealth preservation conferences in cryonics promote something even worse... self-aimed perpetual trusts for the wealthy cryonicist which will result in dead frozen hands that currently hamper and will suffocate reality based cryonics.

Cryonicists call a PERPETUAL TRUST a "revival trust".... as explained in this paragraph.
The inheritance loophole was originally devised for America's 19th-century industrial dynasties, such as the Rockefeller and Carnegie families. Concerned that their fortunes would be consumed by taxes, they created long-term trusts to preserve their estates. Personal revival trusts simply name the deep-frozen corpses as a beneficiaries, treating them, for legal purposes, as unborn grandchildren.
source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/3336065/Rich-freeze-their-assets-for-chance-to-live-again.html

Maybe Don Laughlin's billion dollars did NOT go to cryonics after all.  Laughlin left only $5 million in his revival trust.
Don Laughlin, 75, a Nevada casino owner, has decided to leave his preserved remains $5 million, estimating that he has "a better than even chance of coming back". At least a dozen other such trusts are thought to exist.
source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/3336065/Rich-freeze-their-assets-for-chance-to-live-again.html

This TELEGRAPH.CO.UK article shows that Dave Pizer is putting more into his revival trust than Don Laughlin did...  $10 million,
David Pizer, a holiday resort owner in Arizona, has made arrangements to be frozen along with his wife and their favourite dogs. He also plans to preserve the couple's fortune, estimated at about $10 million. Using a personal revival trust, Mr Pizer, 64, who is in good health, hopes that his wealth will have shown spectacular growth when he comes back to life.

I've never looked Jakob Canady's case but apprently his children are battling his estate-- a common theme in cryonics...
Jakob Canady, a Florida investor who died two years ago, left millions in a trust to be paid when his "human remains are revived and restored to life". His daughters have since produced a second will, claiming that the fortune should have been left to them, and are preparing for a court battle

Only certain states allow perp trusts...
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They are permitted in 20 American states and are attracting interest from financial institutions such as the Wachovia Corporation, which has at least one client.
source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/3336065/Rich-freeze-their-assets-for-chance-to-live-again.html

  

Perpetual trusts will kill us all.

I've previously noted that perp trusts not only are the demise of cryonics but of civilization as well. Without a RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES, all money will end up controlled by dead hands. 

WEALTH PRESERVATION TRUSTS SIGNAL THE END OF CRYONICS -- ONLY A CRYONICS INSURANCE FUND WILL SIGNAL ITS RESUMPTION.]
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The Failure of Cryonics Finance-------
Alcor set up for the rich?-----
Problem is bigger than Alcor--------
Comprehensive Cryonics Insurance & Credit Corporation-------------
Google blogsearch on "cryonics"----------
I quit.------------
My Conversion to CI-----
Bostrom-Sandberg-Vincent on Perp Trusts PDF must read-----
A Negative Seung Test would end cryonics.-------
[Cryoconnectome proof tracking]-----
-Cryoconnectomics needs to be proven as the industry's next step] 

Cryonics is currently on self-destruct like the Enterprise in an episode of Star Trek.. a magnificent concept is going down.. as a result of self directed perp trusts being made worse with robo trusts and Faloon's call for yet more life insurance to be bought by wealthless ordinary cryonicists for reanimation... instead of calling for redirecting bequests of wealthy cryos to a Cryonics Insurance Fund. 

I'm horrified by this turn of events since about 2006 in cryonics... as horrified and saddened as the original crew of the Enterprise watching their ship streak through the sky, burning up as she goes down. Despite the financial crash of cryonics, there is still a hard core group of perp trusters but if the Seung Test proves negative, even they will find cryonics impossible to carry forward. The Seung Test is the new gold touchstone test or acid test for cryonics-- and it hasn't been done yet. Do the wealthy cryonicists fear what they may find-- connectome destruction in cryovitrified brain slice? [Destruction of Star Trek Enterprise 1 min video]

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If Don Laughlin left only 5 million to his future self, where is the other 995 million?

Universities have funds called ENDOWMENTS that have accumulated billions, if not trillions of dollars-- while students struggle to pay off tuitions. It's a real disaster since those endowments ought really be used to educate students the way they were intended by those who left the universities the bequests. Instead, the money is tied up and never used.

Similarly, it now appears that wealthy cryonicists leave their money tied up bequests to their future selves using PERPETUAL TRUSTS. However, in Laughlin's case, it appears only 5 of the 1000 million ended up in his own trust. Pizer has stated that his entire 10 million will be in his own PERPETUAL TRUST. How can this be? Only the money-management people in Alcor and CI know for sure and to this end, we'll have to look at those cryonics "wealth-management conferences" as well as how funding takes place. This quickly becomes an onerous and impossible task (for me at least) since I don't have the time, and increasingly lack the inclination.

SOURCES for possible future investigation on where Don Laughlin left his money:

1.    https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+university+funds+called%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
How do university endowments work? - Investopedia

2.   Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools ...https://www.thenation.com/.../universities-are-becoming-billion-dollar-hedge-funds-w...
Mar 8, 2016 - People are calling it a hedge fund with a university attached. ... of the Responsible Endowment Coalition, calls this a “rage-inducing picture.

3.  Alcor endowments
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Awr9NEmkx7VcNmAAuBuJzbkF?p=alcor+endowments&fr=sfp&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Ai%2Cm%3Apivot&stype=web

4.  Alcor vs. Cryonics Institute - LessWrong 2.0
www.lesswrong.com/posts/PdcpEih96tqrt2waM/alcor...
Alcor also costs substantially more, with its neurosuspension option alone running ~$80k, compared with CI's whole-body preservation cost of ~$30k. While Alcor has received far more publicity than CI, much of it has been negative.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PdcpEih96tqrt2waM/alcor-vs-cryonics-institute

5. "Some Alcor members have wondered why rich Alcor members have not donated more money to Alcor. The major reason is that rich Alcor members are rich because they know how to manage money, and they know that Alcor traditionally has managed money poorly. Why give any significant amount of money to an organization that has no fiscal discipline? It will just spend it, and put itself right back into the same financial hole it’s already in.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PdcpEih96tqrt2waM/alcor-vs-cryonics-institute

Such an acknowledgement, though appreciated, is frankly disturbing, considering that members depend utterly on these organizations remaining operational and solvent for decades, perhaps even centuries, after they are deanimated.
 

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More later. Or sooner. Sooner than later is what I meant.


  Rick Potvin -- circa 2000 A.D. (the future) -- just before attending an Alcor board meeting as a member-observer. BELOW-- Rick playing drums at a retirement center in 2018 Dec. A.D. (now dubbed C.E. for common era instead of anno domini).

  

 

Hugh Hefner preferred blondes on each arm to cryonics.

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