Abstract
Planning for immortality in a bleak apocalyptic future has become big business for an unknown number of billionaires who also appreciate the importance of maintaining status as a “have” (instead of a “have not”). This billionaire hypothetical (which may not actually be hypothetical—I will leave it to you to figure out) raises a myriad of rarely discussed ethical issues for both estate planners and legislators. Estate Planning Ethics for the Apocalypse, by Carla Spivack, published in 2023 in the ACTEC Journal, seeks to open this important conversation.