X-Message-Number: 24259 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:43:47 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: We owe some thank you's References: <> > > >Message #24252 >Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:35:17 -0400 >From: "Kevin Q. Brown" <> >Subject: Daughter of Ted Williams drops case against Alcor > >Good news. It looks like the legal wrangling over Ted Williams >has ended, as the Ferrells have dropped their suit: > > "INVERNESS, Fla. -- The daughter and son-in-law of Ted Williams > signed a settlement Tuesday agreeing that they will no longer try > to get the baseball icon's remains out of a cryonics lab in Arizona. > Bobby-Jo and Mark Ferrell also agreed to no longer object, or > encourage others to object, to Williams' remains being cryonically > preserved, Florida Today reported for Wednesday editions." > >You can get the full article at: > http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3423168/detail.html >or: > http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/sportstoryS0616TEDWILLIAMS.htm > > Kevin Q. Brown > > Thanks Kevin. However, I wish these reporters that were all agast and hep on writing volumns about how he should have been murdered and burnt to a crisp could now do their damn jobs and report the entire facts. I'd especially like to know more details as to why they've dropped it. What threat was so compelling? Maybe it was the possible threat of removal of the portion of Ted's estate that he originally did not want her, Bobby Jo Ferrel, having but they forced their way into getting with blackmail. Blackmail is essentially what their actions amounted to forcing John Henry and Claudia to part with a portion of thier inheritance -- only to have the Ferrels renig and continue their war in the guise of Mark Ferrel feeling he wasn't a part of the agreement Bobby Jo made. It all stinks to high somewhere of petty greed and luddism. It had nothing to do with honoring a father's wishes especially since they were estranged. But caught up in events they felt compelled to continue and pushed by idiot sports fans and so called old frends they had no choice but to continue pouring money into it. I hope they've burned up the entire estate they stole. Good riddance to them. On another note, we all owe a debt of thanks to the tireless efforts of the managers of Ted's estate and his lawyers who after all probably have no personal vested interest in Ted remaining cooled. Still they kept at it and did a fine job and in the end protected one of our own, as Ted and let's nolt forget John Henry now both are, and our other friends at Alcor, those chilled and those running the org. Is there anyone that has email addresses for these folks so that we may all individually send a note of thanks? James -- Member: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org Methuselah Foundation http://www.methuselahfoundation.org Methuselah Mouse Prize http://www.methuselahmouse.org [Give $$$ for life!] World Transhumanist Association http://www.transhumanism.org/ Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org Nat. Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org Act For Change http://www.actforchange.org People for American Way http://www.pfaw.org MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24259