Doctor Lester Hamilton was a doctor who had a great deal of interest in operations that would extend the human life-span. Hamilton and his wife had both arranged for their bodies to be cryogenically preserved after their deaths so that they could have a chance at life later on, Hamilton feeling that they had married too late in life and one lifetime would not be enough for the love they could share. When she learned about this, his wife arranged for him to be killed and his cryonic resignation form to be destroyed, defending her actions by arguing that his tumor was affecting his thinking.