X-Message-Number: 19431 Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:32:36 -0700 From: "John Grigg" <> Subject: A very public family feud How "touching"...: My dad s in a metal tube, on his head, so frozen that if I touched him it would crack him because of the warmth from my fingertips, Ferrell told The East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Ariz. It makes me so sick. (end) She makes ME sick. : ( The NY Times article continues: Ferrell said over the weekend that someone at Hooper s Funeral Home in Inverness, Fla., told her that Williams body had been moved on Friday to Scottsdale, Ariz. She would not identify the person. Ferrell said her half brother (John Henry Williams) had her father s body moved from the funeral home to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, where bodies are frozen after death. Ferrell accused her half brother of planning to freeze and preserve their father s DNA, perhaps to sell in the future. (end) I wonder if the brother really had this as a plan? Maybe he was not content to merely sell autographed memoriabilia! lol I find it so sad that Alcor and cryonics in general is getting such bad publicity from this very public family dispute. I wish the real final wishes of Ted Williams had been carried out so all of this would have been avoided. From the Boston Globe: Most medical professionals view cryonics groups like Alcor with suspicion. However, Marvin Minsky, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology artificial intelligence specialist and Michael West, of cloning pioneers Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Worcester, sit on Alcor's board of advisers. (end) Kudos to Raja Mishra and Scott Bernard Nelson of the Boston Globe staff for ending their article on this note!! best wishes, John _____________________________________________________ Supercharge your e-mail with a 25MB Inbox, POP3 Access, No Ads and NoTaglines --> LYCOS MAIL PLUS. http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19431