If this story was not already strange enough, the town has an annual festival to celebrate its unique body called Frozen Dead Guy Days. The festival includes a coffin race, costume ball, and a feast.
It is not known what the town might do, if Morstoel’s family no longer provides funds to preserve his body.
While this particular story is strange, cryogenics is becoming an increasingly popular method of postmortem disposition of human remains.
Despite not having any scientific basis for it, many people believe that if they have their bodies frozen, doctors will be able to unfreeze them and cure whatever disease killed them.
