Cryonics is the practice of deep-freezing recently dead bodies in the hope that scientific advances will allow them to be revived in the future. The next logical question is, how can one ensure access to their funds once thawed. Ok, maybe that’s not the next logical question, but it is a very good question.The estate...
Read moreWhat Can We Learn From Anthony Bourdain’s Estate Plan?
Anthony Bourdain not only loved to explore but also made it a point to inspire others to travel. In his Last Will and Testament, he specifically bequeathed his frequent flyer miles to his wife and asked that she “dispose of [them] in accordance with what [she]...Death Disrupted: New Technologies to Digitize Life
I spend a lot of my day talking about and planning for death. Until now, it’s been an inevitability of life. However, a la Black Mirror, artificial intelligence specialists and computer scientists say they are close to creating programs to digitize the mind. A startup claims to have successfully preserved an animal’s brain connectomes to...
Read moreDoes Your Trust Need a Facelift?
Hey, we do live in South Florida. But seriously, I come across many trusts created in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s where life was slower, and trusts were irrevocable. These irrevocable trusts had a goal to reduce the size
of a person's estate to avoid estate tax. If you've been reading my ![]()
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