Russ Stanley

Charles Russell Stanley (legal death on September 6, 1968) was one of the people cryopreserved by the Cryonics Society of California. He was a former Assistant Chief Clerk for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was a founding member of the Cryonics Society of California, and one of the Los Angeles coordinators of the Life Extension Society.

Cryopreservation
Stanley was 60 years old when he legally died of heart failure at the Santa Fe Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. After a considerable delay, his body was perfused, and frozen with dry ice. He was kept in dry ice, together with Marie Phelps-Sweet and Helen Kline, in Joseph Klockgether's mortuary. Robert Nelson, the president of the Cryonics Society of California, had frozen the three. Klockgether was very uncomfortable having the three bodies on his premises.

In the spring of 1969, Louis Nisco, who had been cryopreserved by Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation, and his cryocapsule were shipped to Klockgether’s mortuary. Klockgether and Nelson had the capsule cut open, removed Nisco and an interior support, and then put Nisco and the other three back inside. The bodies were not deliberately thawed but must have suffered substantial warming, though according to Klockgether they were still frozen. Then a welder resealed the capsule, which required a wait of several more hours, and it was refilled with liquid nitrogen. The capsule remained at the mortuary another 14 months, tended by Klockgether, who refilled it periodically. In May 1970, the capsule was shipped to Robert Nelson's facility in Chatsworth.

Stanley and the other three in the same capsule were among those who thawed out in the Chatsworth incident.