Son Hopes To Freeze His Parents

[matcom]

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A SON wants to freeze his parents after they die in the hope technology will one day be able to revive them.

Philip Rhoades, 52, a member of the Cryonics Association of Australia, has spent almost $100,000 preparing an underground storage.

The biologist and IT professional will approach the New South Wales Government for permission to freeze his parents at his Cowra property.

His proposal comes as a Melbourne woman, the sixth Australian to be frozen, awaits transport from a Sydney funeral parlour to America.

The woman, who died last week, was kept at a Victorian hospital before her body was transported by road to A. O'Hare Funeral Directors in Sydney.

A. O'Hare spokesman John Williams yesterday said the woman's family had asked for privacy.

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