Bob Nelson
speaker
234 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Bob Nelson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Somewhere, he figured, there had to be a record, a clue that would tell him what had become of his parents.
He's never found it.
Cryonics carried on without Bob Nelson.
And all these years later, when people in the field tell Bob's story, they call it the Chatsworth disaster.
On Cryonics' discussion boards, he's been labeled a murderer, though of course, all the people he supposedly killed were dead to begin with.
When Bob talks about those years, he says he's gotten a bad rap.
He genuinely seems to feel bad about failing Geneviève and her family and for dragging the mortician, Joe Klockether, through the trial.
Bob says a lot depends on your perspective.
If the science of cryonics pans out, it'll be possible to look at Geneviève and Mildred Harris and Helen Klein as casualties of progress, or as Bob calls them, frozen heroes.
Bob's not a rich guy, but he's managed to save $28,000 to pay for his own freezing at the Cryonics Institute in Michigan.
He thinks his odds of reanimation are pretty good.
And in the end, that's the thing that sustains him.
The hope that someday, in 50 years, or 100, or 1,000, he'll wake up in a world he barely recognizes.
A world where Chatsworth wasn't a disaster, but the first imperfect battle in the war that saved us all.
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