'The Newly-Dead Game' Debuts at Frozen Dead Guy Days, March 4-6, 2011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and NEDERLAND, Colo., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Frozen Dead Guy Days, a wild and wacky celebration of all things dead and frozen, gets underway in Nederland, Colorado, March 4-6, 2011. The festival features coffin races, a parade of hearses, a Polar Plunge, the Brain Freeze Ball, frozen turkey bowling and salmon tossing, a frozen T-shirt contest, and new this year, "The Newly-Dead Game."

"The Newly-Dead Game," a variation on the TV show "The Newlywed Game," tests how well a couple knows each other's last wishes. Gail Rubin, "The Doyenne of Death" and author of A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die, hosts the quiz, sponsored by the nonprofit organization, Engage With Grace.

Frozen Dead Guy Days (FDGD) is based on the true story of Grandpa Bredo Morstoel from Norway. After his death due to a heart condition in 1989, his daughter Aud and grandson Trygve packed him in dry ice and shipped him to a U.S. cryonics facility for eventual reanimation. In 1993, Aud and Trygve, hoping to start their own cryonic facility, moved Grandpa to Colorado.

The story then takes a number of interesting turns. Long story short - Grandpa Bredo has been kept in a Tuff Shed-sheltered, dry ice-fueled deep freeze in Nederland ever since.

The Nederland Area Chamber of Commerce coordinates the FDGD festival. Reader's Digest named Frozen Dead Guy Days one of the top five winter festivals in the country. This year's slogan is Freeze The Day!

Gail Rubin also writes The Family Plot Blog and is available for interview. Find more information on "The Newly-Dead Game" at http://www.AGoodGoodbye.com.

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SOURCE Gail Rubin