X-Message-Number: 25762
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 05:36:05 -0800
Subject: Press release on mainstream cryonics debut at Frozen Dead Guy Days
From: Kennita Watson <>

Hi all --

I've sent out the following press release to:
The Nederland Mountain-Ear
The Boulder Daily Camera
The Boulder Weekly
AP Denver
and am waiting for other media contacts from the
Nederland Chamber of Commerce Executive Director.

Cheers,
Kennita


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Kennita Watson
408-373-1147
fax 866-881-7818



AREN'T FROZEN GUYS ALL DEAD?
Cryonicists attend Frozen Dead Guy Days to say "No!"

PALO ALTO, California, March 4, 2005 -- This year for the first time, 
the scientific cryonics community will have a presence at the Frozen 
Dead Guy Days (Nederland, CO, Friday-Sunday, March 11-13, 2005).

The Frozen Dead Guy Days is a lighthearted festival that grew up around 
the town's resident "frozen dead guy", Bredo Morstoel, whose grandson 
Trygve Bauge had him packed in dry ice and brought here from Norway 
upon his death in 1989.

While understandably the major players in this space, Alcor and the 
Cryonics Institute, are remaining at arm's length for fear that being 
associated with such an off-the-wall event would hurt their credibility 
in the scientific and business communities, cryonicist Kennita Watson 
has no such concerns.
-more-
  "The Frozen Dead Guy is a local joke, even an international one; I 
want people to know that there is a serious scientific endeavor, called 
cryonics, that has every intention and expectation of saving lives, 
offering a viable alternative to burial and cremation."

"I think people are smart enough to understand the difference between 
Grandpopsicle on dry ice in a Tuff Shed, and the laboratory conditions, 
extreme low temperatures, cryoprotection, and monitoring involved in 
mainstream cryonics", Watson asserted.  "We're all about saving lives; 
cryonics patients are not just "frozen dead guys", they are people 
beyond the reach of today's medicine, whom we are preserving in a state 
where they won't deteriorate further, waiting medicine to catch up."

She adds, "I want to show people how science and fun can go together.  
I'm very serious about saving lives, but I'll be seeing how fast I can 
get into a frozen T-shirt, too.".

The cryonics booth will appear in the Frozen Dead Guy Days Expo hall, 
open from 10 AM to 5 PM Saturday and Sunday.

For further information contact Kennita Watson at , 
or see the cryonics advocacy Web page at 
http://www.Kennita.com/cryonics.
For more information on the Frozen Dead Guy Days, see:
http://frozendeadguydays.com .

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