A team competes in the Coffin Races during Frozen Dead Guys Days in Nederland, Colorado in this file picture. Reuters pics
We will continue on whether or not Bredo Morstoel is here, festival owner Amanda MacDonald said yesterday of the man whose body has been packed in dry ice outside Nederland, Colorado, since 1993.
A financial dispute between Morstoels grandson, Tryve Bauge, and the man hired to replenish the dry ice on a monthly basis, Bo Shaffer, has led to Bauge threatening to move his grandfathers body out of Colorado.
Each month for 18 years, Shaffer has hauled 770kg of dry ice carbon dioxide in solid form to a remote shed above Nederland to keep the corpse of Morstoel at minus-31 Celsius and in a state of cryonic suspension.
But Shaffer said he quit after Bauge refused to pay for the rising costs of fuel and ice, which has made the endeavour unprofitable.
It takes two of us to make the four-hour roundtrip, Shaffer told Reuters.
My quitting is the only way to get his (Bauges) attention.
Bauge, who lives in Norway, did not immediately return an email message seeking comment about the dispute.
The Ice Queen and King are seen with a Tuff Shed in the Cyronics parade during Frozen Dead Guys Days in Nederland, Colorado.
Cryonics is the process of freezing and storing a corpse to prevent decomposition in anticipation of medical technology that could bring the dead back to life.
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