But not as cold as Ted Williams' heart!....
Get Yer Ice-Cold Afterlife Here
02:00 AM Jul. 09, 2002 PT
A semi-permanent deep freeze doesn't have to break the bank. That's the message of a human cryogenics company engaged in a price war with the folks who are planning to put former baseball star Ted Williams on ice.
"Cryonic suspension" -- the freezing of a dead body in the hope that it can be resurrected in the future -- isn't cheap. Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the Arizona company reportedly working to store all or part of the former Boston Red Sox slugger, charges as much as $120,000 per cold-storage job.
But a competitor in Michigan, perhaps taking a cue from car dealers, boasts that its freeze jobs are offered at "The Most Affordable Prices Available Anywhere" -- as low as $28,000.
"Remember," says the perky Cryonics Institute website, "You need us, and we need you. Help us to share and build the long tomorrow."
Of course, no one knows for sure if there will be any tomorrow for the 41 "patients" who are spending part of eternity in Cryonics Institute storage units and the 59 at Alcor. If anyone has even been revived from frozen slumber, they're not talking.
The institute freezes its clients side-by-side in multi-person units. With the help of liquid nitrogen, the bodies are kept at a steady temperature of 328 degrees below zero, said spokesman David Ettinger. His father, 83-year-old Robert C.G. Ettinger, helped kick-start the cryonics movement 30 years ago by writing a book proposing life after death.
For those who understand no explanation is needed, ...For those who don't none will.
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