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Mr. Freeze

28, Jan 2010

The 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

Body (We Are the) Worlds: Michael Jackson to Be Plastinated

27, Jun 2009

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 sudden death, [...]

By: Meg Holle
In: Death + Popular Culture
Tags: celebrity death, cryonics, plastination

Better Living Through Not Dying: Cryonic / Belief Suspension

11, Jun 2009

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 [...]

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