Question:
Florida dentist freezes tooth ...... ?
Answer:
Boca Mayor Steven Abrams said he sees no reason to object to such a
land use when the matter comes up for a vote next month.
''It's in an area that would permit research. There is no other
concern than that,'' he said.
But those who remember the story of Dora Kent may think otherwise.
Suspended Animation Chairman Kent, also the president of the company's
primary fundraising arm, was suspected of beheading his mother, Dora,
15 years ago in Riverside, Calif. The son told acquaintances he'd had
his 83-year-old mother's head cryogenically frozen. The location of
Dora Kent's head was unknown.
Kent wasn't charged with a crime. Years later, Alcor officials
announced that Dora Kent's head had been at their facility, where it
remains to this day.
STATE'S OK NEEDED
Kent's Life Extension Foundation, which has offices in Fort
Lauderdale, has been Suspended Animation's primary source of funding,
Shumaker said, for at least a year.
In addition to zoning approval, Suspended Animation also might need a
go-ahead from the state's Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
The board's newsletter says the matter is still under consideration.
The process begins with the patient signing a consent form. The
one-time cost of preservation can be as low as $28,000 (which entitles
the recently departed to little more than being packaged in dry ice)
or as high as $200,000 (which involves a variety of surgeries and
injections), according to Shumaker. But because no one has ever been
revived, it's impossible to determine whether the price makes any
difference.
Clients will be stored at Alcor until medical science comes up with a
cure for whatever ailed them.
I think that the idea here is that you will be "retired" in a Boca
Raton freezer until technology solves two problems: 1) How to cure whatever
caused your death. and 2) how to thaw out a dead person and bring him or her
back to life. Not addressed is the question of WHY anyone would want to
bring any of these "retirees" back to life and who would pay for the process
and how they would meet their living expenses with their estates long since
"put in order".
Kind of makes you wonder about those frozen mummies found the mountains of
Peru and Europe in the past few years. Perhaps they were practicing
cryogenics a lot longer than we think.
It would be ironic if the future world embraced the movie Soylent Green and
these frozen cryogenic bodies turned out to have classical music played
while they rode the conveyer belt.
