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During his lifetime, Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams absolutely epitomized the phrase “larger than life.” Revered for his phenomenal batting ability, the Hall of Famer became a cause célèbre after his death in 2002, when it became known that his body had been shipped to Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, for cryopreservation. There Williams’s head was reportedly severed from his body and both were treated with cryopreservatives before ultra-low-temperature storage. The body of his son John Henry Williams, who died 2 years later, is also stored at the facility. “He didn’t believe in God. He believed in science,” the ballplayer’s daughter Claudia said about her father in an April 2012 interview. “We did this together because it made us feel like it ...
