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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 journalist [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife| Death + Biology| Death + Technology| Death Ethics| Defying Death
- Tags: books, cryonics, immortality
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 of Ademir [...]
Questions and Answers about Moment of Death: AWARE Project Uses Technology to Investigate “Out-of-Body Experiences”
Today – MSNBC.com (September 28, 2009)
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According to the Today show’s Q&A, the Awareness During Resuscitation study — AWARE for short — is investigating “what happens to the human mind [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Afterlife| Defying Death
- Tags: definition of death, moment of death, research, video
This American Life: Mistakes Were Made
originally aired April 18, 2008.
It’s the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death. But freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds. Harder still [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology| Defying Death
- Tags: cryonics, podcast
RadioLab: Unconventional Ways to Stay Alive
9, Jun 2009RadioLab: Stayin’ Alive
originally aired June 2, 2009.
This week on the podcast we take a look at four unconventional ways to stay alive. We talk to geneticist George Church, who originally appeared in our So Called Life Show, biologist Bernd Heinrich, neuroscientist David Eagleman, and finally, we visit a CPR class.
- By: John
- In: Defying Death
- Tags: podcast
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