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 . # # # Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25762