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Book: Cryonic lab abused Ted Williams' head
Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims. In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically describes how The Splendid Splinter" was beheaded, his head frozen and repeatedly abused. The book, out Tuesday from Vanguard Press, 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. Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors' last .400 hitter.
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This whole thing is just ghoulish. They should have let the man just rest in peace.
RobPLS
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Lovely, now we have to hear about that POS son that Ted had and what he did.
Schadenfreude -…
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Just plain grisly ...
nonsbr
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This is disgusting. There is no place for anything like this. These people willingly gave up their bodies, and then get treated like this. Anytime I had a cadaver lab, or handled human organs I did it with respect to the individual. They gave up their bodies to science so we can learn, not to be butchered. They are people, not toys. This just pisses me off to no end, and if it's true then these "workers" need to be severely punished.
bbech
Appleton , WI
Total Comments (568)
good morning peeps...the chowda nation should love this ...just wondering did they use this??? Opening day "Let's Go Rangers"...pssst Bruins lost opener to Washington....
Sgt. Schultz
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Really, you're going to go there? This has nothing to do with sports (other than it being Ted Williams), and everything to do with how people's bodies are being mistreated. Do you think this is the only body they've done anything like this to? My guess is probably not.
bbech
Appleton , WI
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Yeah, I'm in a foul mood over that....we all know what that may lead to.
Schadenfreude -…
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Cryogenics remains the best way for Cubbie fans to ensure they eventually see their team win a World Series. After all, a time machine to go back in time hasn't been invented yet.
As to Ted's head being used for batting practice or otherwise being purposely being abused, I find that hard to believe. Seems more like a lie made up to sell books.
KenoshaMark
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****.
Science!
Portsmouth, NH
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alright peeps...gotta go to work..feel like i just got home from yesterday but wadda ya gonna do...and bbech..your right it's friggin disgusting they have probably mutilated god knows how many bodies...but for William's son to do this they should put him in that place now when he's alive.....check in later peeps...
Sgt. Schultz
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what a bunch of dirtbags.
Science!
Portsmouth, NH
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You know the old saying... it's best to quit while you're a head.
M-a-r-s
Waltonville , IL
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ha ha ha ha
Not a way to ahead in life eh!
HellAwaits!!
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Thank goodness I'm in a class again today ... all day. I may be able to lurk, but bruins ... by gum ... you'd better not make me regret it just because you're in a bad mood!! Take it out on the hockey threads!
;)
Catwoman
Fan Nation, HQ
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And, for my obligatory thread comment:
If this is true .... IF it is true ... these people are the lowest of the low. Poor Ted didn't know what he was setting himself up for ... was this HIS wish to be frozen, or was it his looser son's? All I know is, I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered ...
Catwoman
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you can't make up this stuff...holy cow. i am the point where nothing really surprises me anymore. how could it? there are so many people in the world that anything, good or bad, is possible.
ME DUM DUM
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AABP
Catwoman
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watch out for Bowser...I hear he's turning gay and likes sausage.
ME DUM DUM
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