Miami Herald: After a rejection by Boca Raton, Boynton Beach has given the go-ahead to a cryonics company that intends to freeze the dead, then ship the bodies for permanent storage in Arizona.
A company associated with the Arizona firm that froze the head of baseball legend Ted Williams will open a cryonics facility in Boynton Beach, less than two years after being rejected in Boca Raton.
Suspended Animation expects to open in August, in an industrial strip just off Interstate 95.
The unproven and often-criticized science of cryonics supposes that dead people can be frozen and then -- months or years later -- be brought back to life. Suspended Animation hopes to develop equipment and transport ''clients'' who have agreed in writing to be frozen cryonically.
''We're about defeating mortality,'' said Charles Platt, 60, a science fiction writer with no medical background who will manage the lab. Platt was Alcor's Chief Operating Officer.
The South Florida lab will primarily act as a kind of ambulance service for the dead, Platt said. It will not store bodies.