Hopeful Ice Once More

Just saw on boingboing that the Cryonics Institute has resolved the legal issues that have recently bedeviled it. Apparently, the cryonics facility has now been licensed as a cemetery. Of course, should the Pascalian Wager that is cryonics actually succeed then a cemetery is precisely the opposite of what that facility is. But, when in Rome, I suppose... Although the Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth (DLEG) Bureau of Commercial Services allowed the Cryonics Institute to preserve the bodies currently in its care while their recent dispute continued, CI has all the while been unable to accept new contracts or patients. But now that CI has been licensed, the cease and desist orders have been withdrawn. "We are pleased that CI can now become a licensed facility, permitting state oversight of its operations," said David C. Hollister, Director of DLEG. "We believe that it's licensure as a cemetery provides additional protections to the people of the State of Michigan." The boingboing piece seemed to imply that baseball great (so they tell me) Ted Williams was at the CI facility -- but my own understanding is that the PR hoo-hah around the Williams suspension provided the occasion for the trouble at CI but that his body is in fact in Arizona.