X-Message-Number: 5307
Date:  Thu, 30 Nov 95 10:37:58 
From: mike <>
Subject: SCI.CRYONICS re French Scientist

Kulik Igor, #5301, writes:

>  I am desperately looking for an old French scientist ,who 
>had worked in the field of cryonics in his younger years several decades 
>ago.
>Presently ,he lives somewhere in his old castle in France ,where he 
> stores his dead wife on ice ! Due to this people call him 
>DR.Frankenstein' . 

The man you are talking about is Dr. Raymond Martinot. I don't 
have his current whereabouts; perhaps Anatole Dolinoff 
would. (I don't have his whereabouts either but think I could find it 
if you are interested; Bob Ettinger may be able to help too: 
) Dr. Martinot's wife 
Monique Leroy died Feb. 25, 1984, at age 49, and was frozen and stored in a 
refrigerator that is supposed to maintain a temperature approximately 
that of dry ice. Dr. Martinot was 62 at the time of the freezing and 
was described in press reports as a "retired Assistant (Professor?) 
of the Academy of Medicine" in Paris. Most of this information comes 
from an article in the August, 1984 *Immortalist*, "Suspension furor 
in France" (starting p. 2). The "furor" erupted when a 
power failure forced Dr. Martinot to purchase dry ice, which aroused 
curiosity by "some unfriendly busybody" who informed local police. 
Officials in France fretted over whether keeping someone in a freezer 
was proper, etc., but in the end Monique stayed frozen and (so far as 
I am aware) is still frozen today.

As for calling Dr. Martinot "Dr. Frankenstein" the *Immortalist* 
article comments, "Dr. Martinot's decision to go it alone, in the way 
that he did, does not seem the wisest, of course, but at least he did 
*something*, putting love and honor ahead of convenience and public 
opinion, and for that he has our respect and admiration."

Dr. Martinot must be in his 70s now. I hope his wife stays frozen, 
and he is frozen himself, when deanimation time comes.

Mike Perry


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