Hollywood, CA: Patrick Swayze, who recently died after a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer, has been reanimated, his publicist confirmed to ABC News. He remains 57.
“Patrick was peacefully reanimated today with family at his side after earlier facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” his publicist, Annett Wolf, said in a statement released Monday evening.
Swayze’s wife, Lisa Niemi, told ABC News’ Barbara Walters that she and his brother Donny Swayze were by his 
side when he was reanimated at his ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles. “He looks great!” she said.
Swayze appeared none the worse for wear…ok, some the worse for wear, after exiting the Shiny Happy People Cryogenic Clinic for the first time.
“Gorgeous and strong, he’s a real cowboy with a tender heart,” Ms. Niemi said after his ‘tender heart’ had been restarted. “He’s fearless and insists on always doing his own stunts, but for now we want him to concentrate on the ‘stunt’ of going to the bathroom without an escort; he’s still kind of shaky.”
“When I think of him, I think of being in his arms when we were kids, dancing, practicing the lift in the freezing lake. Now I think of being in his freezing arms by a warm lake…it’s different.” she said.
Apparently, within an hour of Swayze’s passing, employees at the Shiny Happy People Cryogenic Clinic transferred Swayze’s body to a vessel where he was sealed and frozen at 196 degrees below zero for 4 weeks. Nothing affected his suspension-hibernation. “He was like a bear,” his wife noted. “A very, very skinny bear, but a bear nonetheless.”
Swayze will now begin a program designed to put some weight back on. He already has several movie deals in the works, as Harvey Weinstein from Miramax pictures had secretly negotiated a deal with Swayze during his previous life, contingent on his reanimation.
“We think that a reanimated actor has a lot to offer in the current wintry climate,” joked Weinstein. “We trust that Patrick will knock ‘em dead.”
Much speculation has surrounded the films that Swayze will star in. It has been leaked to the Inept Owl that the following Miramax releases have been confirmed and green lighted to best take advantage of the hype surrounding Swayze’s reanimation:
- Decomposing Dancing – A Musical
- Ghost: The Documentary
- Funeral Home (sequel to Roadhouse)
His “Dirty Dancing” co-star, Jennifer Grey, does not doubt Swayze the second time around. She said Swayze “was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace…and now he’s inspired me to have plastic surgery and get that beak I had put back on so that I can join him in Decomposing Dancing. I can’t wait! Welcome back, Patrick!”
In his first words to the media, Swayze had this to say: “I kept my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles, and here I am. I feel weird. Like, it’s not me, but I guess it is.”
“But one thing I’m not gonna do is chase the grave,” Swayze continued. “You spend so much time chasing death, you never live.”
Swayze has been married since 1975 to Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15.
In February, Swayze wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post titled, I’m Trying to Be Reanimated. How About Some Help, Congress?, in which he urged senators and representatives to vote for the maximum funding for the National Institutes of Health to perfect reanimation as part of the economic stimulus package.
He also appeared in the September 2008 live television event Stand Up for Cryogenics where he made this moving plea: “I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, a life not lived in the shadow of cancer, but in the light. … I dream that the word `cure’ will no longer be followed by the words `is impossible.’ Shiny Happy People Cryogenic Clinic – thank you for helping me realize that dream.“
Information from The Disassociated Press was used in this report.