Редактирование: Donald Kester Sr. (раздел)

[[File:Donald Kester, Sr..jpg|thumb|right|Donald Kester Sr.]]
'''Donald Kester Sr.''' ([[legal death]] in July 1968)<ref name="Suspension Failures">[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> was the fourth and last person [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]] by the [[Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation]].<ref name="Suspension Failures" /><ref group=note>The others were "[[Sarah Gilbert]]", [[Louis Nisco]], and [[Eva Schulman]].</ref> He lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<ref name="Cryonics 1992">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-1992-07.txt Cryonic Suspensions: Cumulative Listing and Some Unusual Highlights]. [[R. Michael Perry|Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]''. July 1992.</ref> He committed [[suicide]] by shooting himself.<ref name="Cryonics 1992" />

"Some time afterwards" relatives made the decision to have him frozen, and made the necessary arrangements with Cryo-Care.<ref name="Cryonics 1992" /> His son, Donald Kester Jr., a psychology professor at Chabot Junior College in Hayward, California, had the primary responsibility for funding the preservation.<ref name="Cryonics 1992" /> By late 1969, he decided he had been "suckered" on the hope that his father might one day be [[Revival|restored]] to life.<ref name="Cryonics 1992" /> He retrieved the capsule, had a local welding shop extricate the body and had the thawed body shipped back to New Mexico for burial.<ref name="Cryonics 1992" />