Tell Harris I'm going to post this and the one from the New York Times
where he is QUOTED defending this head hacking everytime he takes my
name in vain.
I'm a student of writing. I love the way the reporter backs into the
lede here. He doesn't drop it on us until the third paragraph. Honest
to gawd I can't get past that third para without busting out laffin.
Our esteemed scientist....this is Harris' alma mater.
Oh and the ASM thread you want is Meno Marketeers 1997
CORONER DROPS DEMAND FOR DORA KENT'S HEAD
http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8812.txt
The Press-Enterprise
The Riverside County coroner's office has dropped its demand for
the head of Dora Kent.
The death of the 83-year-old woman a year ago prompted a criminal
investigation after the woman's son had her head frozen in hopes of
someday bringing her to life.
The son, Saul Kent of Riverside, later sued Coroner Raymond L.
Carrilloin Riverside Superior Court to bar him from seizing, thawing,
and
performing an autopsy on the head. Thawing the head, he said, would
kill hopes of reviving the head and putting it on a new body.
Kent, 49, a longtime advocate of the fledgling science of cryonic
suspension of dead people, said his mother wanted to be frozen after
her death. Cryonicists say people who are put in subzero storage
shortly
after death might be revived someday when science finds a way to do it.
Most
scientists call cryonics fantasy.
In a settlement of Kent's suit against the coroner Nov. 10, the
coroner
agreed to abandon his demand that the head be produced for an autopsy.
In
exchange, Saul Kent gave up his fight to get the county to pay his
$25,600
in attorneys fees and dropped the suit.
Now that the suit has been settled, one of many mysteries in the
case
remains:
Where is Dora Kent's head?
The head, frozen at 320 degrees below zero and placed in a casing,
was
removed from Alcor Life Extension Foundation's lab before coroner
investigators searched the Riverside lab looking for the head in
January.
If he knows, Saul Kent's not saying. "I don't want to comment on
that," he said yesterday from his home in the Woodcrest area. Kent
declined to discuss other aspects of the case, saying police and
district
attorney investigators are still looking at the death for possible
criminal
charges.
Alcor officials say the woman's head was severed after her death
from
pneumonia on Dec. 11. Coroner officials concluded the woman died from
a
lethal dose of barbiturates, drugs pumped into her body to prepare her
to
be frozen. Alcor officials have insisted that she was dead when the
drugs
were pumped in.
Los Angeles attorney Christopher Ashworth, who represented Saul
Kent in
the suit against the coroner, said Kent won the case because he got
exactly
what he wanted -- an order barring the coroner from removing the head.
In addition, the coroner is barred from removing the frozen remains
of
eight other people at the Alcor facility, Ashworth said.
Pamela J. Anderson, a Riverside deputy counsel, said the corner
officials agreed to settle because they no longer sought the head for
autopsy.
In court papers, Carrillo said his office's involvement in the
probe
has ended and "I have no intention at this time nor at any time in the
future of thawing out . . . the remains of Dora Kent."
Meanwhile, the criminal investigation continues into the death and
the
role of Alcor personnel in freezing the head. Investigators are trying
to
find out whether the death was murder. Alcor, founded in 1972, has 100
members worldwide and for a fee of $35,000 to $100,000, will freeze and
store heads and bodies at its facility.
Assistant District Attorney Randall K. Tagami on Tuesday declined
to
comment on the investigation. He said the agreement barring the
coroner
from seizing the head would have no effect on the investigation. "A
civil
order could not prevent the acquisition of evidence in a criminal
proceeding," said Tagami. Whether police even need the head any longer
is
unclear, he said.
The investigation focuses on a dozen people present when Kent's
head
was removed and frozen by Alcor. Among them are: Saul Kent, Michael
Federowicz, former president of Alcor; Jerry D. Leaf, a research
associate
in the division of thoracic surgery of UCLA School of Medicine, who
surgically removed the head; Carlos Mondragon, Alcor president; and
Hugh
Hixon.
Gerald D. Polis, a Riverside attorney who represents Alcor members,
declined to comment on the investigation yesterday, except to say,
"Nobody
has been charged and nobody has been arrested."
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