X-Message-Number: 32401
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:57:50 -0700
Subject: "Organization battles to freeze local woman's head"
From: MARK PLUS <>


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Organization battles to freeze local woman's head

By Greg Boyce

Posted : Feb 18, 2010 5:15 PM
Updated: Feb 18, 2010 7:17 PM

An Arizona organization wants to remove, and freeze the head of an
elderly Colorado Springs woman who died last week, honoring an
agreement it had with the woman.  Mary Robbins, 71, of Colorado
Springs died on February 9, after a two-month battle with cancer.  Her
body remains in a local mortuary. According to her family, in 2006 she
had signed an agreement with a company called Alcor Life Extension
Foundation to have her body frozen.  According to the agreement Alcor
would get $50,000 from her estate. The freezing process is called
cryonics and as defined on the Alcor website is, "the science of using
ultra-cold temperature to preserve human life with the intent of
restoring good health when technology becomes available to do so."

According to daughter Darlene Robbins of Pueblo, her mother changed
her mind about the cryonic process a couple of days before her death.
She changed her will and removed Alcor as a beneficiary and removed
the necklace that Alcor clients wear.  But Robbins said the day after
her mother died, Alcor laid claim to the body. Since then an Alcor
representative, according to Robbins, has been packing her mother's
head in dry ice each day at the mortuary.  Robbins says she can't bear
the thought of her mother's head being removed and stored in Arizona.

The case will be heard in probate court in Colorado Springs Friday.
Family attorney Robert Scranton of Colorado Springs says the
proceeding is a status conference and will likely be brief. He does
not expect any testimony to be heard.

Alcor is represented by the law firm Holme Roberts and Owen, which has
offices in many states including Arizona and Colorado.  Our attempts
to reach the attorney in this case, as well as Alcor, were not
successful Thursday.

Alcor is a non-profit organization located in Scottsdale, Arizona.  It
was founded in 1972.

-- 
Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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