Posts Tagged ‘cryonics’
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
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
Michael Jackson Set to Be Embalmed at the O2 Centre after Missing the Deadline for Cryogenic Freezing Mail on Sunday (June 26, 2009) It looks like Michael Jackson might get his world tour after all — or at least a perpetual stream of curious fans trotting past his moonwalking corpse. The day following the singer’s [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: celebrity death, cryonics, plastination
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. [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology|Defying Death
- Tags: cryonics, podcast