X-Message-Number: 30341 From: Mark Plus <> Subject: Jack Polidoro exploits Alcor's leadership crisis? Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:47:46 -0800 The timing makes me wonder: http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080121/GJOPINION02/528302395/-1/CITOPINION Why Ted Williams is a McCain campaign issue By Dr. Jack Polidoro Article Date: Monday, January 21, 2008 I was pleased to have the chance to question Senator John McCain in person on the sad fate of Ted Williams, at the recent VFW town hall meeting in Laconia, January 1, 2008. I had waited five years to have the chance to address the AZ -specific issue in person since I promised Ted's eldest daughter I would seek the Senator's input. Senator McCain asked me to tell him what he could do as a senator, or president to free Ted from his cryonic fate. He felt there was little he could do in an elected position citing that the Williams's family wishes probably prevailed. What about Ted's wishes? If "family wishes" should be honored regarding Ted, one "key" family member, Ms. Bobby Jo Ferrell's opinion (who was the eldest and first born daughter, and knowledgeable of Ted's own official 1996 Will), was omitted in Ted's fate - he desired cremation and dispersal over the FLA Keys. Whose wishes should be honored? - 1) Ted's authentic Will and Ms. Ferrell's desire to fulfill his wishes, or 2) his two younger children's fantasy of a return from the dead after the freezing and thawing of a decapitated corpse? Rational people opt for Door #1. Since Ted Williams's death in 2002, concerned relatives, personal caretakers, fans, friends and former teammates have called attention to Williams's unceremonious fate in Scottsdale, Arizona, the senator's backyard. That includes his colleagues in the book, Teammates. However, the Commissioner, MLB and the Red Sox have done nothing to free Ted. His legacy and final remains have been vivisected and desecrated. He has been decapitated and frozen in liquid nitrogen in two separate "Dewar" containers at Alcor - head and torso. Some of us have seen the ghastly photos of Ted's pre and post cryonic prep. How? In 2002, an ex-Alcor employee had contacted me regarding my novel about Ted Williams, Project Samuel,- a novel which was published in 2001 and "fictionally cloned Ted" in one biotech company's quest for the Nobel prize. The ex-Alcor employee's desire was to author his own book and go public regarding Ted's demise at the facility. He desired my input on publishing. The subject matter to be addressed was to elucidate a failed cryonics procedure on Ted, resulting in his decapitation. Following that travesty and a personal plea to me by Ted's eldest daughter, Ms. Ferrell, (who fought to have her father cremated), a number of us became involved to help her publicize what Ted really desired after his death. As a Ph.D. physiologist/ researcher in the biopharmaceutical industry, I was glad to help. The subsequent interviews of numerous Ted supporters/ legal experts and an ex-Alcor employee by noted sportswriter, Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated resulted in his August 18, 2003 definitive story of Ted Williams's death and cryonics fate. Ted did not "wish or will himself" to be frozen at Alcor. We know Ted never signed a single document relating to Alcor. His younger children put him there in absentia, and post mortem. The oil-soaked handwritten piece of paper retrieved from son, John Henry Williams's car trunk was dated Nov 2000 and Ted Williams died in July 2002 when the cryptic note first surfaced. Ted could have easily amended his official 1996 Will desiring cryonics in the two-year period before his death, and it is apparent that he didn't. His official documents we know were signed Theodore S. Williams, not with his autograph signature, "Ted Williams" as was seen in the 2000 supplementary note in question. Senator McCain asked me to tell him "what he can do" as senator or president. I suggest the following: 1) review the Ted Williams Will of 1996. 2) read TomVerducci's, Sports Illustrated article from August 18, 2003. 3) elucidate how Williams's corpse ended up frozen in Arizona when he died in Florida where his 1996 will should have been taken precedence. 4) read Alan Kunzman's book, Mothermelters (about Alcor's history) and my own novel, Brain Freeze -321F (written posthumously in Ted's honor) 5) convene and chair a "professional medical, cell biology and cryogenics medical panel" including the AZ funeral directors association to address the fate of corpses and the feasibility of "the clinically dead" returning to life after death with or without decapitation or cryonics. (One cryonics facility already had to be deemed a "cemetery" to continue operation.) 6) force Alcor to produce the paperwork in AZ that indicates that Ted Williams, himself, wanted to be there and signed off on Alcor, or release Ted's remains to his eldest daughter Bobby Jo Ferrell so she can carry out his wish. Senator McCain knew him personally and respected Ted Williams as his hero in baseball and admired him for his service in WWII and Korea as a fellow pilot and veteran. To honor him properly for posterity, the senator can begin by making "a commitment to address the unnecessary, vivisected fate of Ted Williams." That commitment to Ted, his fans, close friends in baseball and a rational medical research community is "ethical presidential leadership," a fight for medical/ethical conduct and the "stepping up to the plate" on a domestic issue that could affect many other "elderly persons" who have been enticed into thinking they may return to life after clinical death; a corpse frozen as a body or head and later thawed. For "credibility," the Ted Williams issue in his home state of AZ is a step that Senator McCain should address positively in his campaign, and NH and other primary voters can request his commitment to addressing/ freeing the Red Sox icon, Ted Williams from his "frozen casket of absurdity." Ted is not coming back to life now or ever and his final official wishes should be respected, reviewed and granted. The question remains, "Is Senator McCain as senator or as a candidate for the highest office of the land willing to champion that effort?" Dr. Polidoro is a resident of Laconia. _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_jan Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=30341