A REMOTE HOPE
A few years ago a young man in the metropolitan New York area took a step before his death at 24 which he thought would safeguard his future. Upon his death, Steven arranged to have himself frozen solid until a medical cure was found for the intestinal infection that had made him a chronic invalid. Steven was a passable poet, photographer, guitarist, a student on the Dean’s list at New York University, and an avid reader of science fiction. A friend remarked, “He wanted to be in the forefront where science fiction turns into science fact.” When Steven’s infection stubbornly refused to respond to medical treatment, he followed up an intriguing ad placed in a science-fiction magazine by the Cryonics Society of New York, a movement with the motto, “Never say die!” This society had been founded on the premise that bodies of the “clinically dead” can be put in a deep freeze and later brought back to life. Seven months…
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