Re: cryonics on the cnbc news

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 08:26:57 MDT


Harvey Newstrom wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 10:44 pm, spike66 wrote:
>
>> One of the oddball things the daughter of Ted Williams mentioned
>> is that the corpses are stored head down. Why do they do that?
>
>
> If the liquid nitrogen levels got too low for some reason, you would
> want your head to be protected the longest.

Oh. Yea. {8^D

Perhaps in the coming court case, they could make special
provision to store Williams head up? If that partially removes
the objections by the plaintiff, it would surely be better than
cremation.

Hey I wonder if Alcor could offer discounts for volunteering
to be stored higher in the dewar?

spike



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