Though major religions describe the human body as an empty vessel void of the entity that made it a person, many with the means called bullshit on that theory by having their remains cryogenically frozen so that future, smarter generations could reanimate them without any groggy, zombie side effects. Many people, including late baseball legend Ted Williams, entrusted the treatment of their corpses to Alcor, a company that can be identified as a scam upon examination of its business model. Alcor responded to this trust by getting the Splendid Splinter’s head stuck in a tuna can.
In a new tell-all book, Alcor’s former COO, Larry Johnson, rakes the muck of an industry most of us didn’t know existed. He describes employees with no medical training hacking away at the remains of Williams and other clients, playing with their heads, and photographing their morbid practices. Johnson spent his last three months at Alcor recording all his conversations, stealing confidential documents, and preparing for his book.
If there is one thing to take away from all this, it’s that people offering escape from death for a price are simply there to take advantage of people’s fears. They know people are scared to die, so they offer you an imaginary way out of it. It’s unscrupulous. About the same level of scruples that would lead one to screwing with a dead persons head and take pictures. If you want to live forever, these are the people you’ll be dealing with. Think it’s worth it?
