X-Message-Number: 2746
Date:  Thu, 12 May 94 09:11:12 
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Subject:  CRYONICS Cryonics Patients Found in Colorado

Hello everyone.

The following article re the cryonics patients found in Colorado 
appeared in today's Arizona Republic (reprinted from other 
sources.)  Discuss amongst yourselves.

Anyone have guesses or opinions about the potential backlash from 
this thing?

Cheers,

Derek Ryan -- 

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*Who's Minding the Bodies?*

*Deported alien leaves behind living mom, 2 frozen corpses*

Knight-Ridder Tribune

NEDERLAND, Colo. -- Police in this rough-edged mountain town 
have recovered two frozen bodies from the home of an illegal alien 
from Norway.  But the charge they're considering isn't murder -- it's 
illegal storage.

Trygve Bauge, 36, keeper of the bodies, was not on hand for 
Tuesday's raid on his bunker-style home.  After more than 10 years 
as an illegal resident in the United States and two months on the 
lam from Immigration and Naturalization Service officers, he was 
nabbed in a Boulder supermarket on May 4 and flown back to 
Norway.

He left behind his mother, Aud Morstoel (alive); two bodies -- 
those of his grandfather, Bredo Morstoel, who died of a heart 
attack in 1989, and a Chicago man named Al Campbell, who died 
of a kidney ailment -- packed into an insulated box in a storage 
shed; and a standing order for dry ice deliveries.

After Bauge was sent back to Norway, officials declared the house 
uninhabitable until a building inspector had checked it out.  Bauge 
did not have a certificate of occupancy for the property, in violation 
of town law.  Morstoel then let the cat out of the bag:  If she were 
evicted, she told a newspaper reporter, who would care for the 
bodies?

Officials then contacted Bauge at his father's house in Oslo, and 
Bauge confirmed that he was storing the bodies on his property.

The storage project is part of Bauge's long-term interest in 
cryonics, the effects of cold on humans, both living and dead.

When his grandfather died, he arranged for the body to be flown 
from Norway to Oakland, Calif., where it was stored for four years 
in a cryogenics facility called Trans Time, in hopes that someday 
the grandfather might be revived or reproduced from his 
dioxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

The body of Bredo Morstoel had been moved to the Nederland 
storage shed "quite a while" ago, Aud Morstoel told authorities.  
The body of Campbell was put into the shed in February, she said.

When authorities, armed with a search warrant, peeked into the 
storage shed Tuesday afternoon, they saw a 4-foot-high, thickly 
insulated wooden box containing a frost-rimmed, chained, stainless-
steel coffin holding Bredo Morstoel, and a green sleeping bag 
holding Campbell's body.  On top of the bodies, they found a stack 
of dry ice wrapped in brown paper and a thermometer indicating a 
temperature lower than 60 degrees below zero.

"I feel like I'm in a David Lynch movie," Mayor Bryan Brown said.

Nobody is quite certain what, if any, laws were being violated by 
Bauge's makeshift cryogenics lab, but Marshal Hugh Pitzer said 
several times that he does not think "it is a criminal matter."

Bauge emphasized that the bodies are packed tightly within several 
layers of insulation and are "no danger to the public at all."

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