Reprint: 2017 Funny TimesI just read in the paper some guy wishes to have his head frozen. Mainly, he’s anticipating that future scientists will have discovered a way to cure a tumor or how to ...

At an industrial park in San Leandro, a small group of artists, scientists and tech enthusiasts are trying to sell an alternative to death: cryonic suspension. The company, Transtime, preserves the ...

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Last weekend, 150 people attended the Alcor life extension conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The main subject was cryonics, the use of technology to cool and preserve the human body with the aim of ...

The first person Robert Ettinger froze was his mother. The founder of cryonics, the practice of freezing dead bodies for possible resuscitation in the future, stuck her in a vat of liquid nitrogen in ...

When Robert Ettinger froze his mother’s body in 1977, she became the Cryonics Institute’s first customer. Last year he froze his wife too, cooling her body to minus 196 degrees Celsius and storing it ...

Cryonic suspension of pigs for a few hours could be used in humans for better trauma surgery. The surgeons drain the blood and connect tubes to the aorta and other vessels, filling the circulatory ...

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A terminally ill patient who opted for assisted death has undergone cryonic preservation at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. This preservation—the first of its kind—signifies an important ...

Imagine having the option of either picking out your casket or putting yourself on ice, so to speak. That option exists on the mainland. And a local mortuary may offer Hawaii residents the same choice ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Seven shiny stainless steel containers, each 9 feet tall, offer no hint of their contents. Certainly no one would guess that one of baseball’s greatest players, the Splendid ...