Archive for the ‘Defying Death’ Category
Head of the Household
16, Jul 2010Interesting article in last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine about cryonics; or more to the point, cryonocists and the people who love them. The article is fascinating for the fact that it delves not so much into the science informing cryonic preservation (as our last cryonics post did) but rather, about how differing beliefs about the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Humor|Death + Technology|Defying Death
- Tags: cryogenics, cryonics
TAL: Trouble Bridge Over Water
11, May 2010This American Life: The Bridge originally aired May 7, 2010 There is a four mile long bridge in Naan-jing China, famous for how many people jump off to commit suicide. In 2003, a man named Chen Sah began spending all of his weekends on the bridge, trying to single handedly stop the jumpers. Reporter Mike [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Defying Death|Suicide
- Tags: China, podcast
Mr. Freeze
28, Jan 2010The January 25 issue of the New Yorker features an amusing article about cryopreservation of bodies, a.k.a. cryogenics or cryonics. The article doesn’t so much shed light on the science of this controversial procedure; but rather, it spotlights Robert C.W. Ettinger, one of the founders of the cryonics movement. The ninety-one year old Ettinger gives [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics|Defying Death
- Tags: books, cryonics, immortality
Death Meets Corporate Retreat in South Korea
5, Jan 2010South Koreans Experience What It’s Like to Die — and Live Again John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 2010) For $25 a client, the Coffin Academy in Daejeon, South Korea, will help you experience what it’s like to be a corpse, including penning your own epitaph, writing final letters to loved ones and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Defying Death|Suicide
- Tags: death meditation, seminars
Dead Man Walking….Into His Own Funeral
9, Nov 2009Dead wrong: Man attends own funeral after mix-up over body’s ID On the holiday known as the Day of the Dead, a Brazilian bricklayer walked into his own funeral. It sounds like the beginning of a joke: So a guy walks into his own funeral….but apparently it wasn’t so funny for the friends and relatives [...]