Редактирование: Mildred Harris

[[File:Mildred Harris.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mildred Harris]]
'''Mildred E. Harris''' ([[legal death]] on September 20, 1970)<ref name="Shoffstall p. 155">[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 155 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> was one of the people [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]] by the [[Cryonics Society of California]].<ref name="Shoffstall p. 156">[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 156 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> She was 55 years old when she legally died of bone cancer at her home in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 155" />

== Cryopreservation ==
Her sons, Terry and Dennis, had made [[cryonics]] arrangements for her beforehand.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 155" /> With the assistance of [[Robert Nelson]] and [[Robert Ettinger]], and the consent of local mortician Robert Major, the mortician [[Joseph Klockgether]] [[Perfusion|perfused]] Harris in the embalming room of Arnold's Highland Park Funeral Home.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 157">[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 157 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> She was then packed in [[dry ice]].<ref name="Shoffstall p. 157" /> She was maintained in California, in Klockgether’s Buena Park funeral home.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 158">[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 158 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref>

In early 1972, Nelson, unbeknown to Klockgether, opened [[Steven Mandell]]'s cryocapsule, placed Harris and [[Geneviève de la Poterie]] inside with the recently thawed Mandell, resealed and (presumably) refilled the capsule with [[liquid nitrogen]], and moved it to CSC's facility in the Chatsworth cemetery.<ref name="Shoffstall p. 175">[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 175 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall</ref> The three were among those who thawed out in the [[Chatsworth incident]].<ref name="Shoffstall p. 175" />

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