Science is Fun Fridays!

There's a party this weekend!  

You see, Bredo Morstoel has been on ice since 1989.  He spent a while in a Tuff shed in Nederland, Colorado, but he was recently moved to the Stanley Hotel's old ice house in Estes Park.

When he died, he was shipped to the Trans Time Cryonics facility in Oakland, CA where he was kept in liquid nitrogen for four years.  In 1993, he was moved to Colorado where his daughter lived, wanting to start a facility of her own.

In 1996, as she was about to be evicted, she was concerned her father would thaw.  She spoke to a local reporter who spoke to city council, and a municipal code was passed allowing the "keeping of bodies."  Bredo was grandfathered in and became a media sensation.

His home is now the world's only museum dedicated to the science of cryonics.

The science originated in 1962 with Robert Ettinger's The Prospect of Immortality.  He discussed the implications of freezing and resuscitation, whereas for Alcor, a cryonics research organization, it's about "long-term, ultra-cold storage of human remains for possible future organ banking and transplantation."

Dead Guy Days wants to educate you, but also to celebrate.  It starts today with the Icebreaker Kick-Off followed by the Royal Blue Ball at the historic Stanley Hotel.