Ted Williams frozen

Ted Williams Frozen In Two Pieces - CBS News
Obviously old news. Does anyone find this creepy and wrong?
It seems undignified and "wrong", for lack of a better word. It doesn't seem right that a dead person should be stored and looked after for posterity by a private company, or really anyone but perhaps their closest living relatives, and even that is still creepy.

From the article:
After Williams died July 5, 2002, his body was taken by private jet to the company in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, Williams' body was separated from his head in a procedure called neuroseparation, according to the magazine.

The operation was completed and Williams' head and body were preserved separately.

Is this where the creators of Futurama got their inspiration?
Heads in Jars - Futurama Wiki, the Futurama database
 
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My mom is from Boston and was a huge Ted W fan, and she was very grossed out by this. I figure he was already dead, so whatever.

Is it creepy to store newborns' cord blood in case they need the stem cells later in life? I think it's kind of cool, actually.
 
It's a waste of money, but it's their money to waste.

So many people are terrified of death - sad.
 
I think death is scary, so I guess I understand... except the part about separating the head from the rest of the body. If they were hoping to be revived in the future, wouldn't that additional damage to his frozen body make it even more difficult (assuming it will ever be possible at all)?

I didn't know what to think about the comment in the article that his skull had been accidentally cracked numerous times. If his family are shelling out that much money to preserve his body, I'd say they've been gypped.
 
The basic idea here is to live forever, to become immortal?

The number of people who could live forever, be immortal, is finite. Limited by the size of the planet. Say 6B for the sake of a figure.

So, once 6B cryogenicaly frozen fossils have been resuscitated as immortals then they'd have to stop any new people being born.

Only a total retard would think that was a good idea so anyone who thinks that is a good idea is, ipso-de-facto, totaly retarded.
 
I think his children watched too much science fiction, but no, it not "wrong". He or his estate can do what every they want with his money.
If I read the article correctly they went against Ted Williams' wishes. Excluding everything else I could see wrong with this, that alone is a problem for me.
 
Not quite the same thing but...

I was really sad that when Roy Rodgers died they didn't stuff him and mount him on his horse Trigger - who has been stuffed (along with Roy's dog Bullet) and on display at the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum since his death in 1965.
I think it would have made an even bigger attraction.



....and it would have restored some type of karmic balance.

....Unless you're a closet transvestites who runs an out of the way motel, I can't think of an acceptable excuse for stuffing and mounting your friends.
 
If I read the article correctly they went against Ted Williams' wishes. Excluding everything else I could see wrong with this, that alone is a problem for me.

Yet Williams' signature, along with John Henry and Claudia's had appeared at the bottom of handwritten note dated more than three years after the baseball star signed a will asking to be cremated.

"JHW, Claudia and Dad all agree to be put into biostasis after we die," reads the pact, which family attorney Bob Goldman said was written in a Gainesville hospital room before the Hall of Fame slugger underwent surgery.
 
The basic idea here is to live forever, to become immortal?

The number of people who could live forever, be immortal, is finite. Limited by the size of the planet. Say 6B for the sake of a figure.

So, once 6B cryogenicaly frozen fossils have been resuscitated as immortals then they'd have to stop any new people being born.

Only a total retard would think that was a good idea so anyone who thinks that is a good idea is, ipso-de-facto, totaly retarded.
Dude... think BIGGER. Colonies in space. Asteroids hollowed out so people can live inside them....
 
The basic idea here is to live forever, to become immortal?

The number of people who could live forever, be immortal, is finite. Limited by the size of the planet. Say 6B for the sake of a figure.

So, once 6B cryogenicaly frozen fossils have been resuscitated as immortals then they'd have to stop any new people being born.

Only a total retard would think that was a good idea so anyone who thinks that is a good idea is, ipso-de-facto, totaly retarded.

It wouldn't be anywhere close to 6B people. Immortality would only be for the super wealthy. The only one's who could afford it.

Believe me, it would be an exclusive club...
 
It wouldn't be anywhere close to 6B people. Immortality would only be for the super wealthy. The only one's who could afford it.

Believe me, it would be an exclusive club...
What makes you think it isn't already here? We'd never know. (cue sinister music)

I've always thought virtual immortality has been within our grasp for decades* (and I'm sure it is now). Ignoring the ethical considerations, if you cloned yourself you'd have a ready supply of replacement parts, with no rejection problems. Barring damage to/or disease of the nervous system (which -as far as I'm aware- currently can't be replaced) you could continually replace your organs and limbs as they were damaged and wore out.


*There is an unconfirmed report that as far back in the 70's a rich man paid one of the leading scientists at that time to develop the technology to create a viable human clone. According to the story the scientist was successful and cloned the rich guy. Supposedly this clone is currently alive and well and has been living as the rich man's son since that time. -I read this in Newsweek long ago.