I would love to if I could figure out how. This is not my area of expertise, but I'll take a stab at it. The first issue, I think, is that cryonics providers are forced by law to pool the money coming in from customers. One of the first things that both the Alcor and CI contracts make clear is that the cryopreservation agreement is not a trust. The language is boilerplate. The second problem, which I think Alcor ran into, was that someone has to be the beneficiary of a trust. But people who are legally dead can't be the beneficiary.
What I have always envisioned is not pooling the money. I would love to be able to keep it separate for each customer if I could. I've been reviewing the endowment trusts that cemeteries use to provide perpetual care. I'm trying to figure out if we can somehow keep the money separate. I don't know if having a large number of separate trusts turns out to be a much bigger headache than having one pooled trust. Or if we do have one pooled trust, I would like to word it so that each person has a separate amount within that trust.
Regardless of how this all works out legally, we will certainly keep track of the amount each person initially put into the Maintenance Fund. I fully appreciate the desire of people to keep their funds separate. Looks like I'll be talking to a trust attorney.
