From: Hermit (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 22:15:53 MDT
Head Separated from Body of Ted Williams
Source: Yahoo! News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20030814/od_nm/williams_dc: Not Credited
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Dated: 2003-08-14
Refer Also: FAQ: Cryonics, medical or embalming technology? (http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=31;action=display;threadid=25353)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of baseball legend Ted Williams is being held in a separate container than the rest of his body at an Arizona cryonics laboratory, and several samples of his DNA are missing, Sports Illustrated said in its latest issue.
Williams' head is being held in a silver can while the rest of his body is in a nine-foot-tall steel tank, according to the report on newsstands on Wednesday.
Williams' son, John Henry, had his father's body placed in cryonic suspension shortly after the Hall of Famer died on July 5, 2002. The technique cools the body to a point where physical decay essentially stops and is done in the hope that scientific advances could somehow restore the dead to life.
Sports Illustrated said its report was based on internal documents, e-mails, photographs and tape recordings from the cryonics lab, Scottsdale-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
Eight DNA samples of the 182 recorded by Alcor as having been taken from Williams are missing without explanation, the magazine reported.
Alcor is still owed $111,000 from the $136,000 pricetag to fly Williams' remains to Arizona and perform the procedure, the report said.
Williams, considered by many to be the best hitter in baseball history, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1966.
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