Ted Williams

[CENTEXHUSKER]

I remember when he died and his family decided to throw his body in the deep freeze, didnt really think it would've been what Teddy wanted. But this story is absolutelty sick.....

Report: Book says Ted Williams' head mistreated
NEW YORK – The New York Daily News is reporting that Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams' severed head was mistreated at an Arizona cryonics facility, according to details from a new book.

In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former executive at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., writes that Williams' head, which had been severed and frozen for storage, was abused at the facility. Johnson claims a technician took baseball-like swings at Williams' frozen head with a monkey wrench.

Williams, the last player to hit over .400 in a season, died in 2002 at age 83 and had his remains sent to Alcor for cryogenic storage in the hope that future generations would develop the technology to revive him.

:WTH :facepalm:

 

[holvy83]

:WTH is right... that is totally messed up from the get go. What on earth gives people the reason to believe that cryogenic crap is going to work.

 

[T_O_Bull]

Sounds like a good reason to take a few people into the desert and put a couple .22's in the back of their head.

T_O_B

:steam :steam :WTH :steam :steam

 

[HUSKER 37]

:WTH is right... that is totally messed up from the get go. What on earth gives people the reason to believe that cryogenic crap is going to work.

Technician=Yankee fan?

Actually, My own accidental experiments with a frog was sucessful...or was it a toad?

I remember as a kid, finding one in the back yard and sticking it into the deepfreeze in the basement and planning on slowing it down a little to scare my niece with it..(Telling her it was a slow moving zombie toad).

But I forgot about it for a few months...Until my Mom found it!

I then put the toadsickle into some water and ~7 hours later he was swimming in it. :dunno

I don't know how long he lived..I was forced to let him go and by that time it was winter...You ever see a toad hop through a snowdrift?

The trick with preserving folks like Ted is to replace the blood with a fluid that won't expand when it freezes so the walls of his brain cells don't break...But simple glycolics (antifreeze) tend to "denature" the tissues...Or at least that's what I'd expect to read in the Mad Scientist's Almanac..

...After initial cooling to near-zero temperature, cryonics organizations replace body water with anti-freeze (vitrification) compounds to prevent ice damage. Then the cryonics subject is cooled to liquid nitrogen temperature, where they can remain essentially unchanged for thousands of years. Studies on dogs subjected to similar procedures as would be performed on humans under ideal circumstances show excellent preservation of fine structure of the brain.
Even with good preservation of body tissues by cooling and vitrification, future science will be required to cure presently incurable diseases and to rejuvenate elderly people to a youthful condition. Aging, disease, and damage due to cooling low temperature are all potentially things that can be repaired by nanotechnology and other future molecular repair technologies. Cryonics will work only when future medicine has mastered these repair technologies. It seems inevitable, with the progress of science, that these repair technologies will come to exist.

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

I think it's a weird practice that should be outlawed................it's playing god IMO, but I guess that's up for debate and maybe I'm being closed-minded?

 

[HUSKER 37]

I think it's a weird practice that should be outlawed................it's playing god IMO, but I guess that's up for debate and maybe I'm being closed-minded?

That's what they used to say about fighting disease.

I don't really have a strong opinion about it one way or the other..Just keep superstitions/religion out of the law books...

And as Buckeye37 loved to demonstrate..frigidity is bad..VERY BAD..

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

I think it's a weird practice that should be outlawed................it's playing god IMO, but I guess that's up for debate and maybe I'm being closed-minded?

That's what they used to say about fighting disease.

I don't really have a strong opinion about it one way or the other..Just keep superstitions/religion out of the law books...

And as Buckeye37 loved to demonstrate..frigidity is bad..VERY BAD..

Well maybe you're right, I guess I just think it's plain weird, now if it actually worked I'd be all for it. I don't wanna die........................ :hmmph

 

[HUSKER 37]

Dave's Top Ten Signs You're Dealing With A Bad Cryonic Preservation Company

10.It's called "Cryonics 'N Things"

9.Cold storage room is kept at 74 degrees

8.At Christmas party, you find grandpa's head chilling the eggnog

7.Motto: "If we don't bring you back to life... what are you going to do about it?"

6."State-of-the-art freezer" is an Igloo cooler in backseat of owner's Hyundai

5.Every now and then, the body of Karl Malden wakes up and eats someone

4.From inside the storage pods, you hear faint cries for help

3.Rated last in "Cryonic Preservation Weekly"

2.For fun, technicians dress bodies to reenact this week's "Mad Men"

1.Representative answers all your questions with "Huh?"

 

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Dave's Top Ten Signs You're Dealing With A Bad Cryonic Preservation Company

10.It's called "Cryonics 'N Things"

9.Cold storage room is kept at 74 degrees

8.At Christmas party, you find grandpa's head chilling the eggnog

7.Motto: "If we don't bring you back to life... what are you going to do about it?"

6."State-of-the-art freezer" is an Igloo cooler in backseat of owner's Hyundai

5.Every now and then, the body of Karl Malden wakes up and eats someone

4.From inside the storage pods, you hear faint cries for help

3.Rated last in "Cryonic Preservation Weekly"

2.For fun, technicians dress bodies to reenact this week's "Mad Men"

1.Representative answers all your questions with "Huh?"

#7 had me laughing!!