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Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (snopes)
Subject: Trans Times beginnings
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 00:51:24 GMT

Organization: San Fernando Valley Folklore Society

  I'm curious about the following quote from Leonard Mosley's biography 
of Walt Disney.  My point is not to start up the age-old debate over 
whether or not Walt Disney was frozen, but to determine the accuracy of 
the statements in the paragraph cited.  The last sentence makes it sound 
as though Trans Time had already placed at least one person into suspension
by the end of 1966, which would contradict the date given in section
6-8 of the FAQ (12 Jan. 1967).  Are there any obvious factual errors in 
the following paragraph?

 - snopes

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   "It was about this time [Fall 1966] that Walt Disney became acquainted
with the experiments into the process known as cryogenesis, or what one
newspaper termed "the freeze-drying of the human cadaver after death, for
eventual resuscitation."  He was shown a report that in California, in the
small town of Emeryville, across the bay from San Francisco, a medical
laboratory called Trans Time had begun experiments with human cadavers to
preserve them for the future.  A newly dead body was first treated and
operated on to eliminate the diseased organs that had ended normal life. 
It was then stored away in a refrigerated container until such time as it
could be thawed out, organs and blood vessels brought back into action,
and life restored."

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