It's one of those urban legends that most just won't die. Was Walt Disney phone case actually cryogenically frozen once he died so that he could be reanimated in the future? No .
This urban phone seems to have its origins in the late 1964s and early 1970s, when people felt really getting interested in the advanced science of freezing bodies. People today belonging to the 1960s were promised that science fiction would soon become reality.
Cent Nelson, a former TV repairman, were to become president of the California Cryogenics Their society in 1966 — the same twelve months that Disney iPhone 5 died. Nelson has helped the rumor grow basically claiming in a 1972 Los Angeles Conditions story that Disney wanted to automatically be frozen:
"Walt Disney wanted to automatically be frozen, " [Bob Nelson] says, as casually as if my husband were talking about municipal bonds. "Lots of individuals think that he was, and that the body's by using cold storage in his basement. The simple truth is, Walt missed out. He not ever specified it in writing, and when my husband died the family didn't go for it. There was him cremated. I personally have seen well recognized ashes. They're in Forest Design. Two weeks later we froze onlly one man. If Disney had been onlly one it would have made headlines around the world and simply been a real shot in the left arm for cryonics. But that's the manner of how it goes. "
Nelson's disbelief only seems to have fueled speculation which entails Disney turning into a Waltsicle. The actual 1973 book Here Comes Growing old even uses the legend in the form of jumping off point for saying a futuristic, libertarian paradise.
And Disney wasn't frozen. He was cremated and buried at the Forest Design Memorial Park cemetery in Glendale, California.
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