Immortalist Parents?

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I was just wondering if there are any other immortalist parents out there. I wanted to discuss what you teach your kids and how you go about enabling there immortality. I'm at the beginning of the consideration, but here's what I plan to do:

Life insurance - buy each kid life insurance at birth when it is as cheap as it can get and sign it over to a cryonics company. I'll make sure it is the type that grows indefinitely in cash value. This way they will always have the option and always have a start to paying the costs of cryonics or immortality therapy. Hopefully over enough generations this will ensure that all of my grandkids have the opportunity to be immortal also.

Raising immortals - I figure I teach each kid that they have the opportunity and won't have to die. I raise them to be pro immortality and put it first in their life. I teach them the lifestyle and to always think of the future and investments in the future. I teach them to invest in life insurance for their kids when they are born and to continue the family tradition.

I think all to often when people think about immortality or become an immortalist they make assumptions that they might not otherwise make if someone had raised them in the lifestyle. So how else can prepare my kids to lead both ethical and immortal lives?

I've seen stuff like People Unlimited, but I don't live anywhere near them ATM and they are still a growing movement. I want my kids to have the kind of motivational speaking that PU offers, but I'll be doing pretty much alone. I don't know many people who want both kids and immortality. Most say they'd rather wait.

Obviously they need to be taught to accumulate wealth for the family and establish living arrangements and long term income generating investments to support future generations and to ensure that the money is always there for the costs of immortality.

If you haven't heard of People Unlimited, I strongly suggest you check them out:
http://www.people-unlimited-inc.com/videos.html

I believe immortality is the answer. Even if I were to have a kid with a strong disability I would still want them to have the opportunity to live in the future where they will have access to more solutions for their life and be able to enjoy more of life. I won't goad myself into thinking that a disabled kid should lead a limited existence. I might choose to give such a kid up for adoption if I couldn't afford them, but I'd still pay for their cryonics life insurance.

Ideas? Suggestions?

Wow!? no more for you man.

We all must die, sometime...

Honestly, I think there are good reasons we are NOT designed to be immortal, so don't forget that a GOOD parent teaches not only what they, themselves, believe, but exposes their children to what others believe.

Since you seem to be serious I will just point out the most obvious flaw in the plan: you can't hold a life insurance company to its policy once the company has gone out of business, and companies are not immortal.

But the concepts of building and preserviving wealth through generations can be positive regardless of the success of immortal plans, so by all means teach the foundations of conservative financial management.

Just don't forget the value of today while you prepare for what will always be, regardless of the best laid plans, an uncertain tommorrow. Actually becoming a parent teaches you that lesson real fast.

Immortality won't come for still quite a while. Immortality? No, stopping aging would be a better definition, as you're son could still die of a accident. Rather you should prepare your son to the idea he will die someday, which will happen even if humanity somehow learn to prolong life indefenitely. I mean, what are the odd and consequence of living for billions of years!? And this is still only the "beginning" of what would be true immortality.

Been going on under my nose? Is there an immortality somewhere that I don't know about? Please explain.

Aside from that, the technology and medicine will be available to grow me new equipment should it get chopped off in an accident. I'm not worried about anything like that. The world will also continue to grow in interesting things and possibilities. There will always be something left to experience. Even if you lived forever, you still couldn't get to meet everyone or read every book, watch every movie etc...

Say it out loud! We're immortal and Proud!

We are not meant to be immortal in these bodies in this world. Nature always finds a way to restore it's balance; as soon as we humans think we've got the better of it in one area, it throws a curve ball. Look what happens with antibiotics. Look how autism went up when Downs syndrom went down. Look at weather and natural disasters.

I honestly think you are pursuing a pipe dream for that reason. I think you are better off making the best of the life you have now.

I won't mock you, but I would be surprised if you hold these ideas to the end of raising children. As I suggested earlier, nothing knocks you out of the idea that you can control anything faster than becoming a parent.