X-Message-Number: 19412 From: Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 04:21:23 EDT Subject: Ted Williams --part1_c5.255cc6cb.2a595403_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 7/5/02 ] Daughter says Williams' body is being frozen New York Times News Service Ted Williams' estranged daughter says the baseball great's son plans to freeze the hitter's body in hopes of reviving him in the future -- a decision that she said goes against Williams' wishes to be cremated. Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, Ted Williams's oldest child, said that Williams' son, John Henry Williams, had approached her last year about possibly freezing the ailing slugger's body at the Arizona-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which has frozen 49 bodies. Ferrell's husband, Mark, said John Henry said that Alcor would freeze Williams's head for around $50,000. John Henry Williams "told me we could sell Daddy's DNA," said Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, who is John Henry's half sister. At the time, Ferrell said she rejected the scheme. Ferrell said she learned from a friend in the hospital where Williams died Friday morning that John Henry Williams had gone ahead with the freezing plan anyway. "She told me my father died, and they were freezing him and pumping him full of blood thinners. I knew right away what it was," said Ferrell. "He's just trying to make money off Daddy." John Henry Williams could not be reached for comment Friday night, nor could Ted Williams' lawyer to confirm he wanted to be cremated. Married three times, Williams has one other child, a daughter, Claudia. Ferrell and John Henry Williams are at odds -- with John Henry Williams controlling most of their father's finances. Freezing a body in hopes of bringing someone back to life is known as cryogenics. Bodies are rapidly cooled, usually in liquid nitrogen, to preserve DNA and tissue cells. The hope is that future medical advances could allow the bodies to be revived and cured. However, no one has been able to freeze a body and bring it back to life. ______________________ DC Johnson, Raleigh, NC --part1_c5.255cc6cb.2a595403_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19412