Freezing People Is (Not) Easy (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
After we had frozen the first man, several other groups, including the Cryonics Society of New York, had followed our lead and frozen some patients as well. I would learn over time that these cryonics societies experienced many of the same problems we did. In March 1971 I received a call from Pauline Mandell, who lived in the Bronx in New York. Her son, Steven, had died of cancer in his early twenties and had been in cryonic suspension at CSNY since 1968. She pleaded with me to come to New York to discuss moving her son to California for long-term storage. Like most other patients held by CSNY, her son’s capsule was on the verge of being evicted from Mount Washington Cemetery. She was battling Curtis Henderson, president of CSNY, and their dealings had turned ugly. Since I was traveling to Boston to visit my ailing mother, I decided to make the side trip to see Pauline, arriving on a beautiful spring day. Since New York City seems to prefer to play at the extremes of temperature, this was one of the few visits when I actually enjoyed the weather.
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