On the same website, Laughlin says his last question would be 'how to I live forever'... which was a trite answer, standard to the cryonics clubs over the years, nothing original. He also locked his 500 million dollar estate up into a perpetual trust in S. Dakota. This is nicknamed a "dead hand" trust because is no longer actively manageed and effectively locks money into situations forever. It's a stupid thing to do because the alternative might have been an active-cryonics firm with workable assets of that amount applied to cryonics reanimation research. Current AI avatars could have been built out of Don if he had will his estate properly.
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