Russ Stanley
Charles Russell Stanley[1] (legal death on September 6, 1968)[1] was one of the people cryopreserved by the Cryonics Society of California.[2] He was a former Assistant Chief Clerk for the Santa Fe Railroad.[1] He was a founding member of the Cryonics Society of California[1] and one of the Los Angeles coordinators of the Life Extension Society.[3]
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Stanley was 60 years old when he legally died of heart failure at the Santa Fe Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles.[1] "After considerable delay", his body was perfused, and frozen with dry ice.[3] He was kept in dry ice, together with Marie Phelps-Sweet and Helen Kline, 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]
Stanley and the other three in the same capsule were among those who thawed out in the Chatsworth incident.[5][4]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 Failed Futures, Broken Promises, and the Prospect of Cybernetic Immortality: Toward an Abundant Sociological History of Cryonic Suspension, 1962–1979 (page 184 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
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 (page 423 of the file). Freeze-Wait-Reanimate. August 1968 issue, but published a little later
- ↑ 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