[extropy-chat] Cryonics firm to open S. Fla. facility

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Sun Jul 17 09:28:47 UTC 2005


Miami Herald <http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12136706.htm>: After a 
rejection by Boca Raton, Boynton Beach has given the go-ahead to a cryonics 
company that intends to freeze the dead, then ship the bodies for permanent 
storage in Arizona.
A company associated with the Arizona firm that froze the head of baseball 
legend Ted Williams will open a cryonics facility in Boynton Beach, less 
than two years after being rejected in Boca Raton.
Suspended Animation expects to open in August, in an industrial strip just 
off Interstate 95.
The unproven and often-criticized science of cryonics supposes that dead 
people can be frozen and then -- months or years later -- be brought back to 
life. Suspended Animation hopes to develop equipment and transport 
''clients'' who have agreed in writing to be frozen cryonically.
''We're about defeating mortality,'' said Charles Platt, 60, a science 
fiction writer with no medical background who will manage the lab. Platt was 
Alcor's Chief Operating Officer.
The South Florida lab will primarily act as a kind of ambulance service for 
the dead, Platt said. It will not store bodies.
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