by nomo » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:31 pm
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Oh, the irony...<br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ananova.com/news//story/sm_1766213.html">www.ananova.com/news//sto...66213.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Two founders of the cryonics movement - whose members are frozen after death - have been cremated after a freezer mishap.<br><br>The bodies of Raymond Martinot and his wife Monique were stored in a freezer in the hope modern science could one day revive them.<br><br>But, 22 years after his mother's body was put into cold storage, their son discovered the freezer unit had broken down, reports the Guardian.<br><br>Rémy Martinot said he had no choice but to cremate his parents' bodies after the technical fault had seen their temperatures rise above the constant level required of -65C.<br><br>"I don't feel any more bereaved today than I did when my parents died, I had already done my grieving," he said.<br><br>"But I feel bitter that I could not respect my father's last wishes. Maybe the future would have shown that my father was right and that he was a pioneer."<br><br>Raymond Martinot spent decades preparing for his demise in the belief that if he was frozen scientists would be able to bring him back to life by 2050.<br><br>But his wife, Monique Leroy, died first, in 1984, and was the first to enter the freezer unit in their Loire Valley chateau.<br><br>In 2002 Dr Martinot died of a stroke, aged 84, and his son followed his orders to inject him with the same anti-coagulants and store him alongside. <p></p><i></i>
