FREEZING
THE ASSETS

Topics: Afterlife; Ambition; Death; Eternal Life; Human Condition; Immortality; Life; Limitations; Money; Mortality; Power; Resurrection

References: Amos 4:12; Matthew 6:19–21; Luke 12:13–31; 1 Timothy 6:6–10; Hebrews 9:27

At least twelve American multimillionaires are looking forward to life beyond death. Confident in the continued progress of modern medicine, they have arranged for their bodies to be frozen after they have died. They also have set up “personal revival trusts,” which are designed to ensure their present wealth will be waiting for them when they have been resuscitated one hundred or two hundred years in the future.

David Pizer, sixty-four years old, figured that the “roughly $10 million” he left to himself—after all the compound interest has been added in—will make him “the richest man in the world” when he wakes up.

—“Only in America,” The Week (February 3, 2006)

PART 37: WORK AND LEISURE