You can take it with you

"Last year, when a major financial columnist suggested that people should buy stocks and hold them until the day they died, we figured expectations had hit the ceiling. We were wrong. Apparently, in a mania of this magnitude, even the bounds of mortality can be sur- passed. The Luxemborg-based Prometh Societé is offering "reincarnation accounts" to people who are not willing to let death stand in the way of their financial planning (minimum account size is $30,000). When the claimant returns in the next life and provides a few key facts, he can claim the account, which will presumably have grown to quite a size at the generally-expected 30% per annum compounded." The Elliott Wave Theorist -- December 5, 1997