For those of you who don't know (I had forgotten this myself) Red Sox great Ted Williams was cryogenically frozen after his death in 2002.
Strangely, his head was surgically removed and is being stored separate from his body in a lab in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he waits with about 60 other popsicle bodies to be re-animated when the technology exists.
Sculptor Daniel Edwards has created a sculpture in honor of Ted Williams and in protest to his state of chilly unrest. The sculpture depicts the head of Ted Williams sitting in front of the bust of Ted Williams, with his head leaning back and his eyes partly closed.
Says Edwards:
They should free his remains. I'm a huge fan of Ted Williams. When I was a kid, the first bat I got was a Ted Williams model.
By the way, the decision to cryogenically freeze Ted Williams was made by his son based on a scrap of paper which stated that Williams and his children wished to be frozen when they died so that they could be together again in the future. William's will requests that he be cremated and his remains be scattered in the Florida Keys.
By the way, you can have your own Headless Ted Sculpture (there are three) for 15 grand.
2 comments:
I got a feeling headless Ted would be a bit creepy in morning while eating my Frosted Mini-Wheats.
" Hey, what's so creapy about Headless Ted? Is it that he's the same color as the frosting on our famous mini-wheats? "
Have the bust of any known headless celebrity would be creepy in my opinion.
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