Редактирование: Clara Dostal

[[File:Clara Dostal.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Rendering of Clara Dostal based on photograph]]
'''Clara Adelaide Dostal'''<ref name="Cryonics p. 20">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2013-08.pdf Cryonics in New York: Decline, Tragedy, and Twilight: 1969-1974 and Later]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2013 #8 (page 20)</ref> (née Weidmann; 1911<ref name="Cryonics p. 20" /> – [[legal death]] December 10, 1972)<ref name="Shoffstall p. 191">[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 191 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> was the sixth 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]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. alcor.org</ref>

Born in Queens, New York, she earned a Master’s degree in education from New York University, graduating at the top of her class. In 1941 she married Frank Dostal, a man with a heart condition who might otherwise have gone off to war; they had two children. Stricken with polio when the second child was born in 1944, she eventually recovered but inspired by the experience designed a self-propelled vacuum cleaner to make it easier for handicapped people to clean, received a patent on it, and was written up in ''The New York Times''. The Hoover company then started marketing a very similar product as their "Hoover Dialamatic." She was preparing a lawsuit against them when stricken with cancer and she turned to [[cryonics]].<ref name="Cryonics p. 20" />

She had signed a contract which allocated $20,000 from her estate to CSNY.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 191" /> She legally died from cancer at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. when she was 61 years old.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 191" /><ref name="Cryonics p. 20" /> She was [[Perfusion|perfused]]<ref name="Cryonics p. 20" /> and maintained in [[dry ice]] at CSNY's facility for nearly two years until November 1974, when her two children, by now unhappy with the cost and the emotional burden, had her buried.<ref name="Lessons" />

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