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.
That's okay, because the passage, "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." appears to be cut and pasted from this organization's website. Do a google search and check it out.
And the brain resides in the human consciousness.
The fact is that Ted Williams' final instructions were for cremation.
John Henry Williams is someone who needs to be seriously and laboriously examined by a psychiatrist. He is sick in the head and has been centering his existence on making a buck off of his father's fame.
Remember when Ted was on the mound at Fenway for the All Star game in 2000? Right before Ted threw out the first pitch, his son John Henry reached out and removed his dad's Red Sox cap and replaced it with a white cap with blue printing that said "Hitter.net"...John Henry's website devoted to selling Ted Williams memorabilia.
John Henry is a piece of sh!t.
(*) I won a gold medal (first place) in my 8th grade science fair for a project on cryogenics. :)
I didn't see that. He must have taken the hat off before he came on to the field because I remember Ted coming on to the field in that hitter.com hat. But anyway, the fact is that John Henry is trying to make a quick buck off his father's death.
Bob Ryan of The Sports Reporters (ESPN) just said the same.
If I were to opt for cryonic suspension, I would have my whole body suspended instead of just my head.
Of course the brain is the most important part of the nervous system, but valuable memory and information may also be stored throughout the entire nervous system.
The assertion that the human consciousness resides not only in the brain, but also throughout the entire body may very well be true.
If it is true that Ted William's head is being frozen by Alcor, then I think the cost is about $50,000. Otherwise, I believe that Alcor charges over $120,000 for a full body suspension.
Yes, the brain and the body are severely damaged by freezing, because the ice crystals that form are spikey and tear through the cells.
Supposedly, sometime in the future, nanorobots will be used to repair this kind of cellular damage.
Gee whiz, even in death the sons are going on the cheap.
No; the intention of freezing the head is to build or grow a new body using the same future science that allows the frozen body to be revived and cured. If the intent was only to sell DNA, Williams' son could have frozen any old bit of flesh.
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