Редактирование: Ann DeBlasio

[[File:Ann DeBlasio.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ann DeBlasio]]
'''Ann DeBlasio''' (1925? – [[legal death]] January 3, 1969)<ref name="Shoffstall p. 163">[https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/90878/SHOFFSTALL-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979] (page 163 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> was the third person [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]] by the [[Cryonics Society of New York]].<ref name="Lessons">[https://www.alcor.org/library/suspension-failures-lessons-from-the-early-years/ Suspension Failures: Lessons from the Early Years]. alcor.org</ref>

== Cryopreservation ==
Ann DeBlasio was 43 years old when she legally died of breast cancer at New York University Hospital in Manhattan.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 163" /> At the pronouncement of her legal death, she was packed in [[water ice]] at the request of her husband, [[Nick DeBlasio]].<ref name="Shoffstall p. 163" /> Then she was moved to the hospital's refrigerated morgue.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 163" /> Hours later, she was taken by mortician [[Fred Horn]] and CSNY's [[Saul Kent]] to the basement of St. James Funeral Home, where she was [[Perfusion|perfused]], cooled, and packed in [[dry ice]].<ref name="Shoffstall p. 163" /> There she remained for seven months in a short-term containment unit.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 163" />

On August 15, 1969, she was transferred to a long-term, [[liquid nitrogen]]-filled storage vessel in CSNY's facility at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery in Corum, Long Island.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 164">[https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/90878/SHOFFSTALL-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979] (page 164 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> There she was placed in close proximity to [[Steven Mandell]],<ref name="Shoffstall p. 164" /> the first patient of CSNY.

On August 17, 1971, she was removed from the care of CSNY and relocated to Mt. Holiness Cemetery in Butler, New Jersey.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 170">[https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/90878/SHOFFSTALL-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979] (page 170 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> Nick DeBlasio and [[Robert Nelson]] had constructed a long-term, underground facility in there.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 170" /><ref name="Shoffstall p. 171">[https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/90878/SHOFFSTALL-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979] (page 171 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref>

In November 1972, [[Dorothy Labin]] was placed in the same cryocapsule with Ann DeBlasio.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 194">[https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/90878/SHOFFSTALL-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979] (page 194 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref><ref name="Shoffstall p. 195">[https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/90878/SHOFFSTALL-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979] (page 195 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> They remained in the facility until July 1980, when their decomposed and refrozen bodies were removed and buried.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 195" /><ref name="Lessons" /> Then the capsule was cleaned out and sent to [[Trans Time]].<ref name="Lessons" />

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