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  • August 8, 2014

    Freezing Yourself like Time in a Bottle

    Cryogenic Preservation Is Changing What It Means to Be Dead
    If you could freeze yourself until a future age, are you sure you’d want to?
    Judith Shulevitz, The New Republic (July 27, 2014)

    Good article in The New Republic on the uses (and abuses) of extreme cold technology for the nearly dead, almost dead, and very certainly completely dead.

    Just remember: cryopreserving yourself for the future may one day be feasible (maybe), but is it desirable?

    That’s the question.

    Besides, the actor Timothy Hutton can only defend the rights of one defrosted humanoid during his lifetime.

    Cryogenic Preservation Is Changing What It Means to Be Dead If you could freeze yourself until a future age, are you sure you’d want to?…

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  • August 20, 2011

    Cryopreserve Me into the FUTURE!

    In Pictures: Frozen in Time Photographer Murray Ballard catalogues the world of cryonics, which involves freezing a dead person’s body in liquid nitrogen until technology…

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  • July 16, 2010

    Head of the Household

    There was an interesting article in last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine about cryonics; or more to the point, cryonocists and the people who love them….

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  • January 28, 2010

    Mr. Freeze

    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…

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  • June 27, 2009

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

    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…

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  • June 11, 2009

    Better Living Through Not Dying: Cryonic / Belief Suspension

    This American Life: Mistakes Were Made originally aired April 18, 2008. This American Life does it again. “Mistakes Were Made” looks at the rise and…

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