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Cryopreserve Me into the FUTURE!

20, Aug 2011

In Pictures: Frozen in Time Photographer Murray Ballard catalogues the world of cryonics, which involves freezing a dead person’s body in liquid nitrogen until technology has advanced enough to bring them back to life. Photographer Murray Ballard’s Best Shot ‘This is a cryonics lab. Four whole bodies can be frozen in each vat. But just [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Afterlife|Death + Biology|Death + Popular Culture|Death + Technology|Defying Death
  • Tags: cryogenics, cryonics
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Soylent Green is Dead Bodies Eaten by Mushrooms

17, Aug 2011

Green Burial Project Developing Corpse-Eating Mushrooms Paul Ridden, gizmag.com (July 29, 2011) The Infinity Burial Project Jae Rhim Lee Every once in a while I come across a new-dead-body-disposal-concept which I really like. Indeed, I really wish that I had tons of excess cash so that I could start my own dead body technology R&D [...]

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  • In: Death + Art / Architecture|Death + Biology|Death + Humor|Death + Technology|Eco-Death
  • Tags: decomposition, green burial
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Keeping Your Dead Pets Alive Forever

30, Apr 2011

Furever Amy Finkel, Director We humans love our pets. A lot. We love them so much that when they die the grieving process can become overwhelming. Over the last ten years the number of companies and funeral homes offering pet memorialization services, products, and bereavement literature have ballooned. Meg came across the following in-development documentary [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Monuments + Memorials
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Bye Bye Birdies

10, Jan 2011

The recent spate of mass bird deaths has taken flight across the Internet—a literal and figurative tweeting and Twittering—and dare I say crowing—on a large scale. You could say it’s causing quite a “flap.” Reported by the Associated Press, the Daily Mail and others, masses of birds have been mysteriously falling from the sky in [...]

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  • By: Kim
  • In: Death + Biology|Death + Disaster|Death + Humor
  • Tags: animals, mysterious deaths
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The (Death) Singularity is Near

17, Jun 2010

Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday Ashlee Vance, The New York Times (June 13, 2010) The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death. The tagline for this New York Times article is only partially correct. The Singularity movement and another group called the Transhumanists see [...]

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  • In: Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics
  • Tags: bioethics, definition of death
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