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If medical science someday gains the ability to bring frozen dead people back to life, scientist Laurence Pilgeram is in for a nasty surprise. According to a lawsuit filed by his son, Kurt Pilgeram, cryogenics company Alcor froze only the elder Pilgeram's head after his death, when he had signed a contract to have his entire body preserved.
The lawsuit states that Kurt Pilgeram was "shocked, horrified, and extremely distressed" when Alcor sent him a package purportedly containing the cremated remains of his father's body after the scientist's death in 2015 at age 90, the Telegraph reports. Pilgeram, who studied the effects of aging, signed a contract with the Arizona company in 1990.
The lawsuit states that Pilgeram's contract was for "Whole Body Preservation," and the company "committed fraud against Kurt when they promised him that his fathers whole body would be preserved and then cut off his head." The son, who is seeking $1 million in damages, says Alcor told him the body was "medically unable to be preserved."
He accuses the company of preying on the elderly and says it is unlikely its customers "can ever be resurrected." Alcorbelieved to charge around $200,000 for preserving a body and $80,000 for just the headwould not comment on the specifics of the case to Gizmodo, but said it "generally is confident that the legal system will properly run its course, as it has in the past."
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JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)I told him it's not going to work. Dead is dead.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)And his wife and kids will be out 200K in inheritance.
Harker
(14,049 posts)you just can't get ahead.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)ALCOR stories seem to pop up every time someone loses their head!!!!