Bob Nelson

The publicity worked.

It attracted new people to be frozen, some of them with the ability to pay for it.

Then, in July of 1971, Bob got a call from a Canadian man named Guy, the father of a seven-year-old girl dying of a rare kidney cancer.

One day, everything was fine.

The next day, doctors were telling him his child had weeks to live.

The way Guy saw it, it didn't matter if cryonics was a long shot.

Bob Nelson presented the only slim hope his daughter had left.

Guy didn't have a lot of money, but he managed to fly Geneviève to California, where he got her admitted to a children's hospital.

Bob remembers meeting her there.

Did her parents talk to her about the idea of being frozen?

Bob knew he shouldn't be performing another free suspension, but he couldn't help it.

He had a daughter of his own, just a couple years older.

He went to see Geneviève a lot.

One day, she made a request.

For a little while, it looked like Geneviève was improving.

Then one morning, Bob was back at the hospital.

According to Bob, Gee hoped to raise $10,000 to pay for a capsule, but he just couldn't manage.

He had a pile of medical bills and two other kids to worry about.

So Bob found himself back in the same fix, short on funds, with a couple of bodies and temporary dry ice storage.

He did the only thing he knew how to do.