Lasher
07-25-2002, 01:56 PM
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Two years before his death, baseball legend Ted Williams signed a pact with two of his children asking to be frozen when he died, according to court documents filed Thursday.
Williams' scrawled signature, along with those of son John Henry and daughter Claudia, appears at the bottom of a hand printed note dated Nov. 2, 2000. That was almost four years after he signed a will requesting to be cremated.
"JHW, Claudia and Dad all agree to be put into bio-stasis after we die," reads the pact, which family attorney Bob Goldman said was written in a Gainesville hospital room before the Hall of Famer underwent surgery. Williams had a pacemaker inserted in his chest on Nov. 6, 2000.
"This is what we want, to be able to be together in the future, even if it is only a chance," said the crude printing on the pact, printed in blue ball point ink.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2002/07/25/williams_pact_ap/
Williams' scrawled signature, along with those of son John Henry and daughter Claudia, appears at the bottom of a hand printed note dated Nov. 2, 2000. That was almost four years after he signed a will requesting to be cremated.
"JHW, Claudia and Dad all agree to be put into bio-stasis after we die," reads the pact, which family attorney Bob Goldman said was written in a Gainesville hospital room before the Hall of Famer underwent surgery. Williams had a pacemaker inserted in his chest on Nov. 6, 2000.
"This is what we want, to be able to be together in the future, even if it is only a chance," said the crude printing on the pact, printed in blue ball point ink.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2002/07/25/williams_pact_ap/