Helen Kline
Helen Kline (legal death on May 14, 1968)[1] was one of the people cryopreserved by the Cryonics Society of California.[2] She was a founding member of it.[1]
Cryopreservation
She legally died of lung cancer in the Burlington Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles.[1][note 1] The hospital staff cooperated with the Cryonics Society of California, and Kline was perfused and placed in dry ice.[3]
She was kept in dry ice, together with Marie Phelps-Sweet and later also with Russ Stanley, in Joseph Klockgether's mortuary.[2] Robert Nelson, the president of the Cryonics Society of California, had frozen the three.[2] Klockgether was very uncomfortable having the three bodies on his premises.[2]
In the spring of 1969, Louis Nisco, who had been cryopreserved by the Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation, and his cryocapsule were shipped to Klockgether’s mortuary.[2] Klockgether and Nelson had the capsule cut open, removed Nisco and an interior support, and then put Nisco and the other three back inside.[2] The bodies were not deliberately thawed but must have suffered substantial warming, though according to Klockgether they were still frozen.[2] Then a welder resealed the capsule, which required a wait of several more hours, and it was refilled with liquid nitrogen.[2] The capsule remained at the mortuary another 14 months, tended by Klockgether, who refilled it periodically.[2] In May 1970, the capsule was shipped to Robert Nelson's facility in Chatsworth.[4]
Kline and the other three in the same capsule were among those who thawed out in the Chatsworth incident.[5][4]
Notes
- ↑ Contrary to what the dissertation says, she was probably older than 55.
Sources
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979 (page 182 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 2,8 Suspension Failures: Lessons from the Early Years. R. Michael Perry. alcor.org
- ↑ Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979 (page 151 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Robert Nelson and the Chatsworth Scandal. Charles Platt
- ↑ Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979 (page 190 of the file). Grant W. Shoffstall