| The Frozen Dead Guy is a local joke, even an international one. I formed Go Cryo! to get the word out to as many people as possible that cryonics is a serious scientific endeavor that has the potential to save many lives. It offers a viable alternative to burial or cremation, and is accessible to anyone who can afford to buy life insurance |
Go Cryo! exists to inform the public about the life-saving potential of cryonics. Cryonics quickly cools those who can no longer be sustained by today's medicine to temperatures cold enough to stop physical decay. The goal is to restore them to health in the future.
In contrast, the Frozen Dead Guy Days is a lighthearted festival that grew up around Nederland's resident "frozen dead guy", Bredo Morstoel. His grandson, Trygve Bauge, packed him in dry ice and brought him here from Norway upon his death in 1989.
Major cryonics organizations, including Alcor and the Cryonics Institute, remain at arm's length, fearing that association with such an off-the-wall event would hurt their credibility in the scientific community. Cryonics supporter Kennita Watson, founder of Go Cryo!, has no such concerns.
"The Frozen Dead Guy is a local joke, even an international one. I formed Go Cryo! to get the word out to as many people as possible that cryonics is a serious scientific endeavor that has the potential to save many lives. It offers a viable alternative to burial or cremation, and is accessible to anyone who can afford to buy life insurance," she said.
"I find people want to know and 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 today's cryonics," Watson asserts. "The point is to save lives. Cryonics patients are not 'frozen dead guys'. They are patients beyond the reach of today's medicine, carefully preserved to give medicine time to catch up."
She adds, "Just as important, I want to show how science and fun can go together. I'm very serious about saving lives, but I also want to see how well I can bowl a frozen turkey."
The Go Cryo! cryonics booth will appear outside the FDGD Theater from 10 AM to 7 PM Saturday and 10 AM to 5 PM Sunday, with formal presentations each day.
For more information on Go Cryo! and cryonics, visit http://gocryo.org. For more information on the Frozen Dead Guy Days, visit http://frozendeadguydays.com.
About Go Cryo! and Kennita Watson:
Go Cryo! is a grass-roots organization whose mission is to spread information about cryonics and related life-extension technologies to the public. Kennita Watson, founder, has been involved with the cryonics and life extension communities for over ten years, and in political campaigning and outreach for nearly twenty.
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