90-year-old Lawrence Pilgeram of great falls (Montana) pays the company Alcor Life Extension Foundation and $120 thousand, so that after his death his body was stored indefinitely at -196°C, in the hope that some future technology will breathe life into it.
In April 2015, about a month after the death of Pilgeram in California, a box of his ashes arrived at the home of his son Kurt.
«They cut off his head, burned his body, put him in a box and sent to my house,» — said the 57-year-old Kurt Pilgeram.
The man was shocked, turned with the remains of his father, because he wanted to keep all my body. Now Pilgeram Jr. requires more than $ 1 million in compensation for the damage and wants to Alcor returned to the head of his father.
«I want people to know what is happening,» he said.
For its part, Alcor claims that they had signed an agreement with Lawrence Pilgeram, not his son, and they have fulfilled all the conditions. The company accuses Kurt Pilgeram that he’s trying to get rich allegedly worrying due to «unspecified problems with cryonic preservation of the brain of Mr. Pilgeram».
This is a special container designed for the bodies of the four patients immersed in liquid nitrogen
«Imagine that you signed a contract, being adult and sane, and then one of your children comes and says, «I don’t like the agreement that you signed!»», said James Harrod, counsel for Alcor.
According to the web site of the company, Lawrence Pilgeram was the 135th patient Alcor and was a member of cryopreservation since 1991.
Kurt pilgeram the newspaper that he cremates his father’s head, if she will return, and spread the ashes at the family ranch in Montana.
