As far as I understand it, nothing is expected to be payed after the child dies. In fact, the organizations seem quite emphatically against accepting promise of “future payments”. Every cost is upfront.
(The idea is that if they’d accepted “future payments”, and the parent stopped paying at some point, they’d have to unfreeze the kid, which they’d dislike; it probably wouldn’t do wonders on reputation, either.)
There’s some sad history behind that attitude, I regret to say. There was a high-profile story some years ago about the now-gone Cryonics Society of California, at which several cryonics patients were allowed to thaw—to a major degree because of financial problems.
(Yes, I listen to This American Life occasionally.)
As far as I understand it, nothing is expected to be payed after the child dies. In fact, the organizations seem quite emphatically against accepting promise of “future payments”. Every cost is upfront.
(The idea is that if they’d accepted “future payments”, and the parent stopped paying at some point, they’d have to unfreeze the kid, which they’d dislike; it probably wouldn’t do wonders on reputation, either.)
Well, that sounds like a good thing.
There’s some sad history behind that attitude, I regret to say. There was a high-profile story some years ago about the now-gone Cryonics Society of California, at which several cryonics patients were allowed to thaw—to a major degree because of financial problems.
(Yes, I listen to This American Life occasionally.)