Michael Baburka Sr.

Michael Baburka Sr. (legal death on April 10, 1974) was the seventh and the last person cryopreserved by the Cryonics Society of New York.

Cryopreservation
Michael Baburka Sr. was a 62-year-old who lived in the New York area. He suffered a fatal heart attack on April 10, 1974. His son, Michael Jr., contacted CSNY, and the freezing was carried out. It appears that immediately or very soon the encapsulated patient was returned to the son who arranged for maintenance on his own.

More than three years later, in October 1977, a Lebanon Daily News article reported that the father was still being maintained in a miniwarehouse by his son who periodically added liquid nitrogen to the $5,000 capsule, which evidently was horizontal and (unusually) equipped with a see-through window. A permit to take care of the body had been obtained from the Borough of Brooklyn.

At some time subsequent to this (details undetermined, presumably soon) the maintenance was terminated and Michael Sr., still in his MVE capsule, was buried in Potter’s Field on Long Island Sound.