X-Message-Number: 2746 Date: Thu, 12 May 94 09:11:12 From: <> Subject: CRYONICS Cryonics Patients Found in Colorado Hello everyone. The following article re the cryonics patients found in Colorado appeared in today's Arizona Republic (reprinted from other sources.) Discuss amongst yourselves. Anyone have guesses or opinions about the potential backlash from this thing? Cheers, Derek Ryan -- ****************************** *Who's Minding the Bodies?* *Deported alien leaves behind living mom, 2 frozen corpses* Knight-Ridder Tribune NEDERLAND, Colo. -- Police in this rough-edged mountain town have recovered two frozen bodies from the home of an illegal alien from Norway. But the charge they're considering isn't murder -- it's illegal storage. Trygve Bauge, 36, keeper of the bodies, was not on hand for Tuesday's raid on his bunker-style home. After more than 10 years as an illegal resident in the United States and two months on the lam from Immigration and Naturalization Service officers, he was nabbed in a Boulder supermarket on May 4 and flown back to Norway. He left behind his mother, Aud Morstoel (alive); two bodies -- those of his grandfather, Bredo Morstoel, who died of a heart attack in 1989, and a Chicago man named Al Campbell, who died of a kidney ailment -- packed into an insulated box in a storage shed; and a standing order for dry ice deliveries. After Bauge was sent back to Norway, officials declared the house uninhabitable until a building inspector had checked it out. Bauge did not have a certificate of occupancy for the property, in violation of town law. Morstoel then let the cat out of the bag: If she were evicted, she told a newspaper reporter, who would care for the bodies? Officials then contacted Bauge at his father's house in Oslo, and Bauge confirmed that he was storing the bodies on his property. The storage project is part of Bauge's long-term interest in cryonics, the effects of cold on humans, both living and dead. When his grandfather died, he arranged for the body to be flown from Norway to Oakland, Calif., where it was stored for four years in a cryogenics facility called Trans Time, in hopes that someday the grandfather might be revived or reproduced from his dioxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. The body of Bredo Morstoel had been moved to the Nederland storage shed "quite a while" ago, Aud Morstoel told authorities. The body of Campbell was put into the shed in February, she said. When authorities, armed with a search warrant, peeked into the storage shed Tuesday afternoon, they saw a 4-foot-high, thickly insulated wooden box containing a frost-rimmed, chained, stainless- steel coffin holding Bredo Morstoel, and a green sleeping bag holding Campbell's body. On top of the bodies, they found a stack of dry ice wrapped in brown paper and a thermometer indicating a temperature lower than 60 degrees below zero. "I feel like I'm in a David Lynch movie," Mayor Bryan Brown said. Nobody is quite certain what, if any, laws were being violated by Bauge's makeshift cryogenics lab, but Marshal Hugh Pitzer said several times that he does not think "it is a criminal matter." Bauge emphasized that the bodies are packed tightly within several layers of insulation and are "no danger to the public at all." Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2746