It's pretty sad what greed will motivate people to do.
Posted on 07/06/2002 10:46:48 AM PDT by PJeffQ
Daughter says Williams' body is being frozen
New York Times News Service
Ted Williams' estranged daughter says the baseball great's son plans to freeze the hitter's body in hopes of reviving him in the future -- a decision that she said goes against Williams' wishes to be cremated.
Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, Ted Williams's oldest child, said that Williams' son, John Henry Williams, had approached her last year about possibly freezing the ailing slugger's body at the Arizona-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which has frozen 49 bodies. Ferrell's husband, Mark, said John Henry said that Alcor would freeze Williams's head for around $50,000.
John Henry Williams "told me we could sell Daddy's DNA," said Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, who is John Henry's half sister. At the time, Ferrell said she rejected the scheme.
Ferrell said she learned from a friend in the hospital where Williams died Friday morning that John Henry Williams had gone ahead with the freezing plan anyway.
"She told me my father died, and they were freezing him and pumping him full of blood thinners. I knew right away what it was," said Ferrell. "He's just trying to make money off Daddy."
John Henry Williams could not be reached for comment Friday night, nor could Ted Williams' lawyer to confirm he wanted to be cremated. Married three times, Williams has one other child, a daughter, Claudia. Ferrell and John Henry Williams are at odds -- with John Henry Williams controlling most of their father's finances.
Freezing a body in hopes of bringing someone back to life is known as cryogenics. Bodies are rapidly cooled, usually in liquid nitrogen, to preserve DNA and tissue cells. The hope is that future medical advances could allow the bodies to be revived and cured. However, no one has been able to freeze a body and bring it back to life.
It's pretty sad what greed will motivate people to do.
Let's say (for the sake of arguement) that Alcor is successful in bringing Ted back to life in the future when the means to safely thaw a person and cure their illness will be available.
If such an attempt is successful, won't Ted William's soul be yanked from Heaven and put back into his repaired body?
I know Someone who can bring a body back to life---forever!
Freeze his head only? If that is the extent of it, then there is no intention to bring him back to life - only to preserve DNA.
Don't miss this one.
If that happened to me I'd be really pissed!
Judging from his children's behavior and the number of his wives, I'd say that Ted did a good job passing on the selfishness.
It's either that or they turn poor Ted into a Zombie! ;)
The human consciousness resides in the brain.
The people who only have their head frozen will have to have some sort of new body grown for them.
But the ability to safely unthaw a frozen head and give it a new body still remains in the future.
Umm... actually, it's not. This process is known as cryonics. Cryogenics is a general term pertaining to the science of low-temperature physics, of which cryonics might be considered a specialized branch. Poor editing job by the newspaper.
I was about to make a bid on Yahoo for a picture that featured Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Ted Williams, all had autographed it, Then Ted Died. I think I could have had the photo for under $400, but the bid went well beyond and sold at $610. I guess timing can be everything.
What comes to mind, the departed person can no longer sign autographs, that leaves the collectors with a limited number, which drives up the price. I guess that's the way the economic theory goes....
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