Dying 23-Year-Old Raised Money To Have Herself Frozen After Death
A 23-year-old woman who recently died from brain cancer might get a second chance at life.Before Kim Suozzi died this month, she wrote on her blog that her last wish was to be cryogenically preserved,...
View ArticleMeet The Colorado Man Who Got Paid To Look After A Frozen Corpse For 18 Years
The town of Nederland, Colo. had its annual Frozen Dead Guy Days festival this month, celebrating the corpse of a guy whose family froze him after his 1989 death with the hope he might be revived in...
View Article7 famous people who should have been cryogenically frozen when they died
As far as medical technology goes, there's never been a better time to be alive than the present.Before antibiotics were discovered, diseases caused by bacteria (like tuberculosis, diphtheria,...
View Article6 mindblowing ways people dispose of their corpses instead of traditional...
For the first time this year, cremation has surpassed traditional burial as the most popular after-death option.According to data from the National Funeral Directors Association, 48.5% of people are...
View ArticleA controversial company will freeze your head for $80,000 — here's how they...
In a massive story in the New York Times this Sunday, journalist Amy Harmon documented the journey of a dying 23-year-old woman who decided to freeze her brain.The woman, Kim Suozzi, had terminal brain...
View ArticleThe industry that froze a 23-year-old woman's head is peddling 'snake oil,'...
Anyone who has experienced the devastating loss of a loved one can understand the impulse to latch on to anything that might bring that person back.It's that very impulse that drives some people to pay...
View ArticleI visited a facility where dead people are frozen so they can be revived later
Over 100,000 people die each day globally. Why don't more of us consider cryonics — the practice of freezing the clinically dead in the hopes of bringing them back to life at a later date — as a way to...
View ArticleInside the labs that hope to bring people back from the dead
Science has been tackling new ways to stop death, which includes diving into the world of cryonics. Cryonics is an experimental effort to save lives by freezing a person's body who is so chronically...
View ArticleA 14-year-old in Britain just won the right to have her body frozen for...
A 14-year-old girl in Britain has just been granted the right to have her body cryonically frozen in the hope that she will be brought back to life one day. The teen, from London, was dying from cancer...
View ArticleAn American hedge fund is advertising for a £124k job that offers to freeze...
The San Fransisco-based hedge fund Numerai is currently advertising for a full stack engineer.You would be paid pretty well — $130,000 to $160,000 (or about £100,000 to £124,000) — to develop the...
View ArticleMillionaires are dropping tens of thousands on 'young blood' transfusions and...
The ultra-wealthy are dropping tens of thousands of dollars on preventative measures and treatments meant to help them live forever — or at least, as long as possible. "Young blood" transfusions,...
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