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Date: Sat, 14 May 94 16:09:18 EDT
Subject: CRYONICS bauge

By now probably some of you have heard from Trygve Bauge, who called me this
morning from Oslo. According to him, the situation is as follows:

The town of Nederland,  Colorado (where he has his newly built house and the
sheds with the two patients in dry ice) originally demanded that he "sign
off" within 24 hours, agreeing to move the patients, or else they would seize
them. They backed off their ultimatums, but now another town meeting is
scheduled for Tuesday, when they may vote to ban cryonics in their town. If
this happens, Trygve may be grandfathered in (excepted from the law) but no
new facilities or patients would be allowed. He asks for whatever assistance
anyone can provide to dissuade the locals from this, or to help with his
legal fees. He says he could move his facility to Boulder, which would not
object, but he doesn't want to do that, having already built his home in
Nederland, and of course we want to avoid a precedent of local authorities
banning cryonics.

Meanwhile, he says there has been tremendous media coverage in Norway, mostly
favorable. We have independent confirmation of tremendous media coverage--how
favorable we don't presently know. Trygve says he is in fact working out of
the office of a TV station (if I understood him correctly). He says Norwegian
authorities have said cryonics facilitities (or at least his facility) would
be welcome in Norway, no permit required. He suggests that cryonics
organizations here might exploit the opportunity to open branches in Norway.

He gives the following telephone and e-mail numbers for those who want to
inquire or to help. I hope I have these right..

Trygve Bauge in Oslo, Norway, home 011 47 22493908
Mailing address Olaf Bullsvei 12, 0765 Oslo, Norway
E-mail <>

His mother (Aud Morstoel, I believe) in Colorado  303-582-0142
Colorado friend Walter Goedeck 303-494-3348
Another friend, Jerry 303-499-1518
Attorney David Harrison (Boulder) 303-449-2830
Newspaper Daily Camera 303-447-1462. Clay Evans has been friendly.

The Cryonics Institute has taken no position on any of this, and we realize
the potential for Trygve's damn-the-torpedos attitude to cause us problems.
At the same time, Mae and I feel we should give him some kind of support, and
plan to contribute some money to his legal expenses.. He thinks (initial?)
legal expenses may run $5,000.

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