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There are many things that a family needs to consider and in the weeks and months after a loved one’s death. A court battle over legal custody of her frozen head<\/a> should not be one of those things, but that’s what a Colorado family faces after the death of their 71-year-old grandmother.<\/p>\n Mary Robbins had signed a contract with cryonics nonprofit Alcor for her head to be frozen after her death, and for the company to receive a $50,000 annuity to help care for her. (You may remember a similar legal battle over the remains of baseball great Ted Williams<\/a>.) <\/p>\n According to the family, she changed her mind in her final days, canceling her contract with the cryonics company and avoiding preparations that hospice staff were not comfortable with.<\/p>\n Two days before she died, Robbins changed the beneficiary on her annuity policy so the money would go to her family, an act witnessed by family and non-family, Scranton said. The lawyer said that others heard Robbins say that she no longer wished for her head to be frozen.<\/p>\n Darlene Robbins said she contacted Alcor to let them know her mother had changed her mind and “they hung up on me.”<\/p>\n Alcor, Scranton said, rejected Robbins’ verbal cancellation of the contract, “saying oral revocations don’t count. That it has to be in writing.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n We hope that this situation is resolved amicably and quickly. Remember, for situations as mundane as a gym contract up to serious end-of-life matters, never assume that breaking a contract orally is enough. Make sure that your intentions are perfectly clear and in writing, and valid in the jurisdiction where you happen to be at the time.<\/p>\n Court Gives Custody of Grandmother’s Frozen Head to Cryonics Company<\/a> [ABC News] (Thanks, LadySiren!)<\/em> There are many things that a family needs to consider and in the weeks and months after a loved one’s death. A court battle over legal custody of her frozen head should not be one of those things, but that’s what a Colorado family faces after the death of their 71-year-old grandmother. Mary Robbins had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nColorado Springs Court Upholds Desire of Alcor Member to be Cryopreserved<\/a> [Alcor Press Release] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"