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Subject: Frozen Dead Guy days News coverage
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:28:00 +0100

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      I am forwarding a few of the news stories to the mailing list. According 
      to the news papers in question it is only commercial copying that is not 
      permitted.

      Stories have been running in most of the Denver/Boulder medias for several
      days now, and upcoming stories are coming in the Boston Globe (on 
      Tuesday?) and on the CBS Sunday morning TV show next Sunday (covers the 
      whole United States).

      According to the reporter from the Boston Globe many people there were 
      against the Alcor freezing of the famous Boston Athlete (Williams?).

      I told the reporter from the Boston Globe that those in favour of Cryonics
      in Boston, ought to move to Colorado, not just are people there (in 
      Colorado) in favour of cryonics, the skiing is better too.
      Sincerely, Trygve Bauge for more visit my web site www.trygve.bauge.com

      Frozen man thaws town 
      Irreverent 'Dead Guy Days' celebrate preserved Norwegian in Nederland 
      By Monte Whaley
      Denver Post Staff Writer
     

      Sunday, March 09, 2003 - NEDERLAND - A guy in a gorilla suit skipping 
      behind a line of creeping funeral hearses is not the type of parade most 
      towns would throw to celebrate their most famous resident. 
            Post / Glenn Asakawa 

            Three-year-old Riley Smith, center left, and sister Joanna, 5, hold 
            on Saturday during the coffin race at Nederland's Frozen Dead Guy 
            Days. The irreverent festival celebrates "Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel, 
            who died in 1989 and was frozen by his grandson. 


      But somehow it fits in free-spirited Nederland, which now resurrects 
      itself in the dead of winter by celebrating the corpse of an 89- year-old 
      Norwegian. 


      "It's probably one of the most unusual events in the world," Atashnaa 
      Medicine Shield, a Nederland store owner, said Saturday. "But it works 
      well here. We're kind of an independent group of people."


      Frozen Dead Guy Days started Friday night and go into today by marking the
      life and continuing death of "Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel.


      Morstoel died in 1989 but was frozen by his grandson, then a Nederland 
      resident, and stored and packed in ice in a Tuff Shed overlooking the town
      of about 1,400. The grandson's hope was that Morstoel can one day be 
      revived and cloned. A caretaker replenishes the ice when necessary.


      Town officials were at first stunned by Morstoel's refrigeration as it 
      drew international attention. But more than a year ago, Nederland decided 
      to make the best of a foray into cryogenics and turn it into a civic 
      milepost.


      "At least it gets our name out there," said Betty Hunt, past president of 
      the Nederland Area Seniors.


      A documentary - "Grandpa's Still in the Tuff Shed" - was shown Friday 
      night, followed by a pub crawl downtown.


      Heartier partiers could then take a midnight tour of the Tuff Shed housing
      Morstoel. A $35 fee included champagne.


      A highlight Saturday included a slow-moving parade through a part of the 
      muddy downtown in front of small, eclectic shops.


      Residents and others costumed as undertakers toting makeshift caskets 
      threw candy and waved at the knots of people lining the procession.


      Fire trucks, Tuff Shed floats, the gorilla and at least one hairy man 
      dressed as a woman attracted laughs and applause.


      The highlight, however, was a shiny string of black antique Cadillacs from
      the Denver Hearse Association.


      "I can't believe we didn't hear about this last year," said Drew Adian, 
      who drove his 1972 hearse in the parade.


      He bought the hearse three years ago and uses it as a family vehicle. But 
      his wife still won't ride in it.

      "She hasn't warmed to it yet," Adian said.


      After the parade, crowds were treated to coffin races in a city park 
      followed by a Grandpa Lookalike Contest.


      Today's events include a snowshoe race, a van smash and a plunge into a 
      frozen pond for charity.


      About 3,000 people came to last year's Frozen Dead Guy Days, the town's 
      first. Dead Guy officials said they hope to improve on that count as media
      attention for the festival grows.


      At least one crew from a national television crew was on hand Saturday 
      recording activities for a later broadcast.


      "We were wondering what we could do to help businesses when it's pretty 
      slow," said Deb Goldberg, former president of the chamber of commerce. 
      "And then we realized there is this frozen dead guy on the hill."



     


Trygve Bauge, Life-Extension Systems, The Norw. Icebathing club & 
Trygve's Meta Portal: www.trygve.bauge.com  

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