Ted Williams frozen head abused according to Alcor executive

Ted Williams died on July 5, 2002 at the age of 83 of cardiac arrest. Williams suffered from numerous cardiac problems. He had a pacemaker installed in November 2000 and underwent open-heart surgery in January 2001. His family then chose to have him frozen in a procedure called cryonics.

Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. Currently, human cryopreservation is not reversible.

His son John-Henry's lawyer produced an informal "family pact" signed by Ted, John-Henry, and Ted's daughter Claudia, in which they agreed "to be put into biostasis after we die" to "be able to be together in the future." Despite some opposition from family and friends, Ted Williams' body was brought to Alcor where it was frozen.

John-Henry's, Williams' son, died unexpectedly from leukemia on March 6, 2004. His body was also transported to Alcor, in fulfillment of the family agreement.

In the book "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically describes how Ted Williams' was beheaded, his head frozen and repeatedly abused.

The book will be out on Tuesday and tells how Williams' corpse became "Alcorian A-1949" at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them.

According to an article in the NY Daily Times, Johnson said he wired himself with an audio recorder for his last three months at Alcor, stole internal records and took gruesome photographs that are reproduced in the book.

The details given in the book graphic and upsetting. The reasons why anyone would do such horrendous things to the remains of Ted Williams are unimaginable. Larry Johnston, author of the shocking book, "Frozen", told the NY Daily News that he hopes his book will help fulfill the wishes Ted Williams expressed in his will - that his body be cremated and the ashes "sprinkled at sea off the coast of Florida, where the water is very deep."

Cheryl Phillips
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sources: NY Daily News, Wikipedia