10 Famous Preserved Corpses

To truly grasp the divisiveness of Ted Williams' post-mortem fate, it's necessary to acknowledge how iconic he was within American sports.

Ted Williams is the most celebrated player to ever play for the Boston Red Sox. His career, spanning from 1939 to 1960 (with a few breaks in between so that he could serve in World War II and the Korean War), was marked with multiple all-star games, MVP awards, and records that are still unbroken to this day.

His death in 2002 at the age of 83 began a tenacious and deeply personal legal battle to decide what was to be done with his body.

Williams' will stated he wanted to be cremated and his ashes scattered, however two of his children wanted his body kept in cryogenic storage. Williams' eldest daughter claimed suit over his two younger children, who claimed that before his death he had changed his mind and signed a new agreement (on a napkin) stating he wanted to be frozen.

The pro-freezing side of the family won and Williams' remains were frozen by a private cryogenics company. Oddly enough his head and body were separated and frozen individually, providing future doctors with another challenge to overcome when he is eventually thawed.