Life after Death...and Decapitation...and Freezing
"Artist", Daniel Edwards, recently made a sculpture of Ted Williams' head in protest to the baseball legend's decapitation and cryogenic burial in 2002. (Note: his "protests" are on sale for $10,000-$15,000 a piece)From The Miami Herald:
"The fact is, he was decapitated and stored in the middle of Arizona - it's an atrocious thing," Edwards said about the cryogenic process that resulted in the Hall of Famer's head being surgically removed and frozen at Scottsdale's Alcor Life Extension Foundation. The rest of Williams' body is stored in a separate tank there.
Alcor is preserving Williams and more than 60 other "patients" in hopes that medical science one day will be so advanced that they can be revived.
So, in other words, not only does science have to advance to a state where dead tissue can be reanimated, but it also has to get to the point where decapitated heads can be re-attached to their respective bodies. Yea, yea. I would TOTALLY pay for that. Its like Vanilla Sky...but less offensive to my intelligence.
posted by Me @ 8:15 AM
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