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Nederland was horrified at first when it learned a resident had cryogenically preserved his deceased grandfather, but now it is grieving the celebrity corpse’s possible move to Estes Park —For more than 20 years, the tiny mountain town of Nederland has enjoyed a macabre claim to fame: a cryogenically immortalized grandfather lying under dry ice in a shed. As Estes Park prepares to kick off the new Frozen Dead Guy Days on Friday, the festival’s former home is grappling with the fallout, and asking itself tough questions. Who owns the culture of a frozen dead guy? And what is Nederland...

Knowing she had only weeks to live rather than her whole life ahead of her, a dying schoolgirl desperately turned to cryogenics in the hope she could one day be brought back.Described as a “bright, intelligent young person”, the tragic 14-year-old spent her last months fervently researching how she could be frozen until a cure is found for her rare form of cancer in the future. But as she ran out of time, her divorced parents were locked in a bitter battle about what to do with her remains. Too young to make a will, the teenager went to court...

Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book BY Nathaniel Vinton DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Friday, October 2nd 2009, 10:44 AM Head of Ted Williams was abused by employees at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., whistleblower says. AP Ted Williams, who spent his entire career with the Red Sox, died in 2002 at the age of 83. 'Frozen,' by former Alcor exec Larry Johnson, makes shocking claims about how employees treated Ted Williams' frozen head. Take our PollCryonics: Critical or near-criminal? In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation...

Workers at a cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams, the author of a new book alleges. In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former executive at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., describes how Williams' frozen head was repeatedly abused, the New York Daily News reported. The book due out Tuesday alleges gruesome behavior at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them. Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the legendary slugger died at age 83, technicians with no...

Picture this: The wealthiest guy in your town or city passes away due to either illness or old age. In the following days his funeral takes place and grieving relatives are seen following his coffin. They weep as the coffin is lowered to the ground and covered in dirt: only there is no body in the coffin. It is empty, perhaps weighed down by rocks. The body of the deceased has in fact been swiftly removed to be snap frozen until such time as technology exists that will allow the dead to be returned to life. This is what is...

In a move sure to make thousands of singers wish they were dead, American Idol judge has announced that he wants to live forever. The caustic American Idol judge wants to be frozen upon his death so he can be revived in the future. “I have decided to freeze myself when I die. You know, cryonics,” he announced to dinner guests at Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s residence. ....

The first-ever footage of a person Liquid nitrogen being cryonically frozen after death is to be shown on Channel Five. The 60-minute film Death in the Deep Freeze will follow a woman who is terminally ill with cancer. It will also show the 'shocking and compelling' invasive procedure used to freeze her, along with interviews while she is still alive. There is no evidence that it works The process, which has been performed on about 150 people, involves freezing the body in the hope that it can one day be brought back to life. Soon after the person dies, water...

The latest research on water - still one of the least understood of all liquids despite a century of intensive study – seems to support the possibility that cells, tissues and even the entire human body could be cyropreserved without formation of damaging ice crystals, according to University of Helsinki researcher Anatoli Bogdan, Ph.D. He conducted the study, scheduled for the July 6 issue of the ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry B, one of 34 peer-review journals published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. In medicine, cryopreservation involves preserving organs and tissues for transplantation or other...

Defying the old saying that you can't take it with you, some of America's richest men are planning to enjoy their fortunes from beyond the grave. They are preparing not only to have their bodies deep-frozen at the moment of death but also to use a tax loophole to bequeath their wealth to themselves. Known as personal revival trusts, the schemes invest millions of dollars until future medical technology makes it possible to bring the beneficiaries back to life. Believers in "cryonics" sign up to private companies which will suspend their remains in liquid nitrogen and store them for what...

Scottsdale, Ariz. - The live-in customers at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation here reside in eight 10-foot-high steel tanks filled with liquid nitrogen. They are incapable of breathing, thinking, walking, riding a bike or scratching an itch. But don't refer to them as deceased. They may be frozen at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit and identified by prisonlike numbers. But to Alcor, the 67 bodies - in many cases, just severed heads - are patients who may live again if science can just figure out how to reanimate them. "They're no different than a flat-lining patient who gets a defibrillator to...

Posted on Sun, Sep. 21, 2003 NEW FRONTIERSLab to freeze humans planned in Boca RatonSouth Floridians who seek life after death through cryonics will be preserved at home before being shipped to Arizona.BY ASHLEY FANTZafantz@herald.com Lab to freezehumans may bebuilt in BocaReady or not, the practice of fast-freezing the dead for future ''reanimation'' is coming to South Florida.A company called Suspended Animation, which already has an office in an industrial district of Boca Raton, hopes to build a cryonics lab before the end of the year. It would be the fourth such lab in the country.The unproven science of...

<p>A Scottsdale cryonics company is disputing a story in today's issue of Sports Illustrated that claims the company decapitated baseball great Ted Williams' body, mishandled it and has lost samples of his DNA.</p> <p>Carlos Mondragon, a director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, said the magazine's report relied on allegations from a disgruntled employee, Larry Johnson, who until this week had been the company's chief operating officer.</p>

"Show me a hero," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "and I will write you a tragedy." Hero is a word thrown around all too loosely these days. Middle infielders who slap singles in the ninth inning of a game in April are called heroes. Ted Williams was the real deal. He flew fighter jets in wartime and in peacetime gave baseball fans the sublime measure of what it means to be a hitter. The tragedy to befall this hero is something Fitzgerald could never have imagined. It has occurred during Williams' post-mortem days. The fighting among his children, the deep controversy...

Suppose that a doctor is present at a drowning. The patient isn't breathing and there's no pulse, but she was pulled out only a couple minutes after going under. But instead of issuing CPR and attempting to revive her, he simply declares, "She's dead," and covers her, to be delivered to the morgue. Or what if, when confronted by a patient with a femur shattered by a rifle bullet, instead of performing reconstructive surgery, he simply saws off the leg at the hip, with unwashed hands and, unable to staunch the bleeding, the unfortunate soul exsanguinates on the operating...

<p>The story of the recent death and career of super-slugger Ted Williams was eclipsed by the 21st century true-life soap opera surrounding the disposition of his remains.</p> <p>Whether cryonics is a worthwhile procedure is an interesting subject in itself, but amidst all of the media speculation about it and its newfound notoriety, I'd like to discuss a different aspect of it.</p>

The history of technological innovation is the history of the tortuous paths which advances often take to acceptance. It might seem at first, from the many well-known instances of simultaneous discoveries, that it is the nature of important ideas to spring up newly everywhere, independently, as soon as the world is ripe for them. But this is only the view at first glance. In actuality, the "synchronicity" of discovery usually turns out to be a late phenomenon, one that follows a prodrome in which the "new" idea in question has long been around in some form or another, but steadfastly...