A legal battle is brewing between a U.S. cryogenics facility and the son of one of its clients after the company froze his deceased father’s head instead of his entire body, filings seen by The Daily Telegraph show. According to legal documents, Pilgeram was “shocked, horrified and extremely distressed” as he knew how important it was for his father, Dr. Laurence Pilgeram, to have his whole body preserved. “There is little, if any, hope of bringing [his] head ‘back to life’ under the circumstances here,” the filing reads. Cryogenics involves deep freezing the body with the hope that customers might be able to cheat death and return to life in hundreds or even thousands of years’ time. Alcor, which began storing bodies in 1982, has 159 patients whose bodies or brains are being kept at the facility.

Source: National Post September 10, 2018 15:33 UTC