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From: andy@stc.co.uk
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Subject: Re: Trust (?) Fund
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 10:35:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 10:35:26 1986
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In article <6519@tektronix.UUCP> sytek@tektronix.UUCP (Mike Ewan) writes:
>In article <884@decwrl.DEC.COM> williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402) writes:
>>
>>
>>	How is it that a children's fund is actually necessary? I would
>>have thought that NASA would have insured the lives of the crew. If they
>>didn't, why not? If they did, what is this fund? I have a feeling that
>>it's the good old american way of capitalizing on tragedy.
>>
>>	C'mon, you're not going to try and tell me that no one knew
>>that this was risky business, are you?
>>
>>						John.
>
>NASA does not carry insurance on the shuttle crew.  Each crew member has
>insurance through the military or through the private sector.  The commander,
>pilot and one other crew member had military insurance of approx. $50,000.
>
>No data was available for the other members except Krista due to privacy laws.
>Of course Krista had the million dollar policy from Lloyds.  Otherwise
>she would have had only the insurance provided by her school district.
>
>Yes they know it is a risky business, but NASA is not in the insurance
>business.
>
>	Mike Ewan
>	(the above opinions are all my own)


OK, we are all agreed that seven people have died in an unfortunate
disaster. Our sympathies of course go out to the relatives of the people
that died.

However this is not the first time people have died in the course of
work, travel etc. What happens every time there is a 
car/coach/train/aeroplane crash, do charities get set up ?

                          No.

Looking at it from the childrens point of view, their misery is not 
going to be eased simply by having more money in their piggy bank.

The time and effort that will be spent by people setting up this
charity, should be admired and congratulated. But I feel the
money could be better spent on people in the third world or medical
research.

                          
                            Andy Jay.

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Andy Jay.

           "Why put off something till tommorow, when you can forget
                        it all together"