Was Walt Disney's body cryonically frozen?
1966 Walt Disney (b. 1901) died at the age of 65. In his remarkable life he and his studios won Oscars for live drama, animated and documentary films. In fact, between 1932 and 1969 there were 26 Oscars from 64 nominations, the last being awarded posthumously for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968).Was Walt Disney frozen for posterity?
Cryonics is the science and practice of freezing recently deceased people, often so that in the future they might be brought back to life by medical science, if possible. When people discuss cryonics, or Disney, they very often mention that the famed animator was frozen. The story goes as far as to say that Walt’s body is stored under the Pirates of the Caribbean exhibition at Disneyland. This, however, is almost certainly a modern myth. Disney's own family denies that he was frozen, and insists that he was cremated on December 17 (official records confirm this) and his ashes left at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles.
So where did the rumour come from? Steve Briggs, President of Alcor Life Extension Corporation in the USA, a cryonic company, believes that Walt's death happened to be announced in the media on the same day as a new cryonics company received publicity when it began, and possibly the two news items got conflated. The grand imagineer was fried, not frozen.
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Pip Wilson posted item above at 11:53 AM | Permalink
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"The grand imagineer was fried, not frozen.", what better way to put it!
i want disney 2 caryy on and i went 2 paris and i saw the disney land and it is soo much fun
disney was frozen. although some evidence show that he was cremanted no one has the ashes to say ya hes fried. he family also could just be trying to keep it secret.
Well that could be true but then again the document saying that he was in fact cremated will be false and illegal. And why would someone want there body fried anyway?
i heard that disney was buried under a ride in disneyland paris
i heard he was frozen and his body is in scottsdale arizona??
who knowssss
I'm very confused.Walt disney is dead.Thats for sure.But was he cremated or froze?Thats what i would like to know
Walt Disney was said to have had a interest in cryonics that must be how the frozen Walt Disney urban legend came about.
It might be so, but I believe there is little if any evidence for it. Snopes says:
"... there is no documentary evidence to suggest that Walt Disney was interested in, or had even heard of, cryonics. Documentation of Disney's alleged fascination with preserving or extending his life through cryonics did not appear until decades after his death, and what little information is available has predominantly been provided by some extremely questionable sources.
Claims about Disney's interest come primarily from two of the more recent Disney biographies: Robert Mosley's 1986 effort, 'Disney's World', and Marc Eliot's 1993 entry, 'Walt Disney -- Hollywood's Dark Prince'. Both books have been largely discredited for containing numerous factual errors and undocumented assertions, rendering them rather untrustworthy as sources of reliable background material."
Source: http://www.snopes.com/disney/info/wd-ice.htm
ACTUALLY, Walt Disney had a sex change operation and is really my mom...I get to ride the tea cups for free when ever I want..weeeee!!
hi. I like pie and rides.
P.S I like cheese
well this is an ongoing debate some ppl say hes hidden and frozen under pirates of da caarribean ride but some say he was cermated nd albert eintsiens brain was froze to save his brillence why wouldnt walt disneys body be they say the brain freezing is 18000 nd body freezings is 150000 but he was a legend to all animaters today this wouldnt be a sick joke because he would say to his daughter after funerals i dont wish to be burried when im dead i want to be remeberd alive that either means he had a secret fear of death or he doesnt want to be burried in earth because i no most ppl like to be remebered after death no one wishes to die but when u noe u will like him u might want a last wish and his is to be remebered so freezing him might be a way of that or he was cermate but were that was was told to be unsaid and thats how it is but i just find him sooo interserting past and present he is a man you can studdy 4 years but their will always be something unknown he is stayed to be remebered
ACTUALLY walys body was frozen some might say fried put WAT EV
WUT I NO IS THAT WAKTS BODY IS IN DISNEY LAND UNDER A RIDE CALLED....THE PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN ....AND IT IS FROZEN ....U CAN C 4 UR SELF IN GOOGLE ...... AT..... WALT DISNEY S FROZEN BODY EVEN C PICS ....... SO THAT MIGHT TAKE A HOLD OF UR MIND 4 A WHILE.....gooooogllle...
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walt disneys body was frozen because he had cancer and if frease ur self u dont die so wanted to be frozen untill they found a cure for cancer yet he might be alive cause they gave him a liqued call anestesia in spanish its to not fell anithing or in his case fall asleeep so maybe hes just asleep because untill u give him water he wont wake up so dont look in youtube in facebook in eney other website 2 find the answer cause u wont .just look at google
Some of these comments I have published despite the fact that they are barely written in English and I don't really have any idea what the writer means. I hope other readers can work them out.
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