“They chopped his head off, burned his body, put it in a box and sent it to my house.”
Great Falls TribuneKurt Pilgeram of Dutton, Mont., is in a legal battle with a cryonics company that he claims mishandled his father's remains. He would like his father's head returned after the company seperated it from and creamated his father's body, which Pilgeram says is a violation of the agreement between the company and his father.GREAT FALLS, Mont.
The company accuses Kurt Pilgeram of trying to receive the life insurance funds earmarked for Alcor for the cryonic preservation under the guise that he was concerned “about unspecified issues with the cryonic preservation of Mr. Pilgeram’s cephalon,” or head. Alcor Life Extension Foundation is a Scottsdale nonprofit company's office houses 168 clients who have died but are being preserved at subzero temperatures in a way that may allow them to be revived and one day live again.Cryonics may sound like science fiction but is based on modern science, Max More, president and CEO of Alcor, says in a video on its web site.
“I further affirm my desire to have the procedure of cryonic suspension begun as soon as possible after the moment of my legal death, to limit the deterioration of my human remains,” the agreement states. A “neuro separation” was then conducted and Pilgeram’s head was driven to Arizona for continued cool down, which began April 15, five days after his death. The rest of his body was cremated.Linda Chamberlain, co-founder of Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, talks about cryonics, a process where people have their bodies frozen after they have been declared clinically dead. Their patients have hopes that they can be brought back to life one day.
Alcor also offered to allow the family to take a DNA sample and have it tested to quell fears the remains were fake. "Generally speaking, many people in cryonics may feel the brain is the most important thing to be preserved," Arrowood said.Alcor met the terms of the contract with Laurence Pilgeram, Arrowood said.
Alcor is asking the court to declare the agreement with Laurence Pilgeram valid and to release the life insurance policy funds.“So people on the forefront of those technologies always have the challenge of public perception due to misunderstanding,” Arrowood said.Laurence Pilgeram grew up on a farm south of Great Falls, Montana, in the 1920s and '30s, where he attended a one-room school house, had his own cattle herd and ran a trap line.
At 14, he began to ask how the ancient Egyptians preserved the bodies of their rulers for thousands of years. The molecular biologist and biochemist went on to a career in the medical field that included stints at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and the Gerontology Research Institute in Santa Barbara.
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